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Re: Sylvain
Re:Lucien..rather interestingly, there's a well-known local (literary, imaginary) character named Lucien, he does a one-man show, and he's the embodiment of the country- hick working- man .(he works at a pulp and paper mill, an importamt local industry, when he works, that is)! As you say, all depends on where you live.Fey and Glammy? That would be Alphonse-Luc.
Or our former Lieutenant -Governor, first-named Hermongilde.That's really ott, though he's a perfectly good guy.I think his mother "got it out of a book".
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Weird how different people's associations can be. Everyone has a unique perspective. I'd even wonder if Lucien's name is meant to be slightly ironic. I can't remember where you live, though. I guess if there's a lot of French heritage around, that changes the game.Alphonse-Luc sounds stuffy and stuckup to me, but not fey and glammy. haha
Hermongilde sounds contrived and dramatic, but doesn't have that "vampire character" vibe that I get from Lucien / Adrien / Damien / Sebastien / Julien / Fabien etc. Hermongilde, to me, takes the heroic-literary vibe I get from names such as Byron, Ulysses, Gideon, & Montgomery a bit too far. If I were a guy, I'd rather be Hermongilde than Lucien because I could go by Gil.
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Not ironic,it's a common name here.(I'm in a French-speaking part of Canada.)Our former Lt. Governor is, in fact, a poet and illustrator, careers he's returned to, now that his stint as Lt.G. is over. (Not that I know him, you understand, but I live in a sparcely populated province and he's quite well known, locally.)
So perhaps his parents had an intuition.Don't know if he is nick-named, it's not so prevalent in French.
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