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[Facts] Ségolène
What does this name mean? It's French and female. Pr. séh-goh-LEHNSurrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe where you were sure of finding shirts - Frida Kahlo
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Thanks, both of you
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe where you were sure of finding shirts - Frida Kahlo
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I found the following explanation on this French names site: http://www.tous-les-prenoms.com/prenoms/filles/segolene.htmland translated it into English through Google and got this:Resulting from Germanic the sieg, victory, follow-up of the adjective lind, soft, soft. This first name made a discrete career with the Middle Ages, then had disappeared from the repertory, except in some areas of the west and the south-west of France. It re-appeared in the years 1950. Sainte Ségolène was in VIIe century, the abbess of a monastery close to Lagrave, in the Tarn. She devoted her life to the leprous one.I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the site, but the above explanation seems plausible. Sieglinde is a well-known name in Germany.
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I would second that.Also other people on this forum voted for Sieglinde, in this earlier thread:
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=495560&board=gen
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