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Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1807-1864) was a Canadian politician who served as the first joint Premier of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada in collaboration with Robert Baldwin, from 1842 to 1843.
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I don't like how people are teased because of their name. My cousin is called Hippolyte –French family– and I think that it's a beautiful name, that every name has its own beauty, and I really don't like it when people laugh at someone else because of their name. And I don't like either when they feel ashamed about how they are named and when they want to change it.
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I'd personally feel sorry for anyone who has to go through life with this name, especially if they were chubby or overweight because of the blatant 'Hippo' part!
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In Tolstoy's War and Peace, a character named Prince Hippolyte Kuragin is the brother of Anatole and Helene.
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It's pronounced 'ippo-leet'. I have several (French) ancestors with this name, but they're all 1700s-early 1800s.
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Now it's even being used on boys? I think this name is dumb regardless of sex.
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In Madame Bovary, the porter with a club foot on whom Bovary's husband operates is named Hippolyte. A similarly unfortunate character appears in Dostoevsky's The Idiot with the Russian version of the name, Ippolit.
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