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This was the name of one of my great-grandmothers. She was my dad's paternal grandmother, and she died when I was 10. (She lived to the ripe old age of 104.) I always thought she had a very cool name - it's a very unusual name here in France, also really old-fashioned, but I like it. According to my grandfather, she was named after a relative. (The relative got it from Saint Pelagia.)
I also like the Greek and Polish form Pelagia and the Russian form Pelageya.
(The most famous bearer of the name is probably the Marquis de Sade's wife, Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil. I only found out her name last month. There's also a novel by a French-Canadian writer called Pélagie: The Return to Acadie, about a woman named Pélagie who tries to return to Acadia from New Orleans after the French and Indian War.)
I also like the Greek and Polish form Pelagia and the Russian form Pelageya.
(The most famous bearer of the name is probably the Marquis de Sade's wife, Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil. I only found out her name last month. There's also a novel by a French-Canadian writer called Pélagie: The Return to Acadie, about a woman named Pélagie who tries to return to Acadia from New Orleans after the French and Indian War.)
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