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19th-century French women writers (1 C, 174 P) Pages in category "19th-century French women" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
Pages in category "French feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In medieval times, a woman was often named Philippe (Philippa), now an exclusively masculine name (Philip), or a male Anne (Ann), now almost exclusively feminine (except as second or third given name, mostly in Brittany). From the mid-19th century into the early 20th century, Marie was a popular first name for both men or women, however, before ...
See baby names inspired by France with these 40 French names and meanings for girls and boys, ... a third-century Christian saint. Croix — Cross. Noe — Peace.
Name Father Birth Marriage Became queen Coronation Ceased to be queen Death Spouse Ermentrude of Orléans: Odo, Count of Orléans: 823: 842: 869: Charles the Bald: Richilde of Provence: Bivin of Gorze: c. 845: 870: 5/6 October 877: 2 June 910 Adelaide of Paris: Adalard of Paris: c. 850 –853: February 875: 5/6 October 877: 10 April 879: 10 ...
Idealized portrayal of a 19th-century grisette by Robert Richard Scanlan. Swift's diatribe is in considerable contrast to the elegiac La Grisette , by Oliver Wendell Holmes a century later. Written in 1836, shortly after he had returned to Boston from his medical studies in Paris, it expresses not only nostalgia for the young woman who had been ...
In the middle of the 19th century, Marianne was usually portrayed in France as a young woman, but by late 19th century, Marianne was more commonly presented as a middle aged, maternal woman, reflecting the fact that the republic was dominated by a centre-right coalition of older male politicians, who disliked the image of a militant young ...
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite Herculine Adélaïde Barbin , later known as Abel Barbin (November 8, 1838 – February 1868), [ 1 ] was a French intersex person who was assigned female at birth and raised in a convent, but was later reclassified as male by a court of law ...