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what girls' names do the French middle classes turn their noses up at?

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NatureAbhorsAHoover · 01/10/2017 18:55

What would the haute bourgeoisie think of as a tacky/trashy name for a baby girl? I speak french but have no idea what sounds déclassé to a French ear.

Not looking to vilify; am interested in the tonal sounds, themes and signifiers that surely exist just as much in France as here?

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GaucheCaviar · 10/10/2017 09:10

Daphne is Greek but is used here.

The Tibéri affair was a political scandal about 20 years ago. Jean Tibéri was the right-wing mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris who won in a rigged election in which a lot of the people on the roll were actually dead yet still somehow managed to vote. He also paid his wife Xavière several hundred thousand francs for a report on the French-speaking world outside France, which was 36 pages long and full of mistakes.

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