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Duanel is the "Spanization" of the French surname Doinel, pronounced [dwa'nel]. It comes from Antoine Doinel, main character of François Truffaut's several films (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud). The first of these films, Les 400 coups was one of the hits of the French Nouvelle vague and it was (and is) a mytical film among intellectuals.

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In Cuba, the influence of French literature, philosophy and films is not unusual and there are men named Antuán (Spanization of the French Antoine) because of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (the author of Le petit prince), for instance.

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