You read Camus for fun and can quote Sartre by heart. You’re kind of a French lit fanatic. So why not name your forthcoming bundle of joy after one of your favorite auteurs or livres? Here, nine baby names that are as bookish as they are francais.
9 French Baby Names for Book Lovers
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Published Sep 7, 2017
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Marcel
For a boy
This Proustian babe is in search of lost playtime.
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Simone
For a girl
You know, like the existentialist de Beauvoir?
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Antoine
For a boy
Le Petit Prince, if you will.
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Lucien
For a boy
After Lucien Debray, from The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Cosette
For a girl
One of the few characters in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables to get a semi-happy ending.
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Raoul
For a boy
As in Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny from The Phantom of the Opera.
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Claude
For a boy
Claude Simon, the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, was kind of like a French Faulkner.
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Belle
For a girl
Long before the Disney adaptation came the original Beauty and the Beast, a fairy-tale by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.
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Madeline
For a girl
We want our appendix out, too!
