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[Facts] Some French Names
I was wondering if anyone knew the meanings of the following French names:FEMALE:
Celimene
Eliante
ArsinoeMALE:
Alceste
Philinte
Oronte
Acaste
ClitandreAlso, does the male French name Dubois mean "From the woods"?All of these names are from the play "The Misanthrope" by Moliere, if anyone cares. :)Thanks!
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At the time Moliere lived, there was a fashion of Greek names/nicknames (generally of nymphs and other smaller Greek deities/semi-deities and mythologycal beings), which of course got "frenchised".Try to find a biography of Louis XIV.Or the 3rd sequel of Dumas's musketeers. You might even like that more.:D
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They're all Greek to me...Try Googling them as:Celimene, Elianthe, Arsinoe;Alcestes, Philinthus, Orontes, Acastus, Clitandros/Klithandros.
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Most of them look Greek to me, but with a French spelling - Oronte has to be Orontes, for instance.
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Dubois (pr. dy-BWAH) means "of the woods, of the forest" in French.
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