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igenlodeI changed the name of the old midwife in What's In a Name? from Mère Mégane ("Old Mother Mégane") to Albine, after discovering that people were interpreting this as an anachronistic attempt to call the character 'Meg-short-for-Megan' :-O
To be honest I don't know *where* I got the name from (unlikely to have been from modern Americanised pop culture as I don't read that sort of French!) Possibly subconsciously from Messrs Renault, although I would guess that I was probably simply looking for a rare name -- e.g. not drawing from the standard Phantom writers' limited female palette of Marie/Louise/Jeanne/Blanche/Angelique! -- that would alliterate...
To be honest I don't know *where* I got the name from (unlikely to have been from modern Americanised pop culture as I don't read that sort of French!) Possibly subconsciously from Messrs Renault, although I would guess that I was probably simply looking for a rare name -- e.g. not drawing from the standard Phantom writers' limited female palette of Marie/Louise/Jeanne/Blanche/Angelique! -- that would alliterate...