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I have actually heard this used as a name -- a former teacher's son -- and apparently it was a name that had been in use for quite some time in his wife's family. The teacher was a bit eccentric, and I greatly enjoyed his class.

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Bastien

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But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

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-John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale