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Re: What is the most beautiful classic name for girls?
Camille is lovely!
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It really is! I'm not sure why I have such an attachment to it, but it's one of my huge list of names that not only do I like but that I'd realistically consider using in real life if I were ever to have a daughter.
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My mother's middle name was Camille and she hated it and was embarrassed by it. So much so that I remember that she scolded my sister for including it on her application for a Social Security card. My sister pointed out that she had had to do so because the form specifically had asked for "mother's full name at her birth". That meant no substituting her maiden name for Camille, which is what my mother usually did. But that was Mom, a devotee of mid-twentieth-century popular names. No thinking outside the box.
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Aw, that's a shame. I love Camille. It's feminine and pretty without being OTT, girly or daft. I can't see much embarassing about it.
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Wasn't there a book called "Camille"?
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It was a novel by Alexander Dumas, "La Dame aux camelias", published in 1848. This actually translates to "The Lady of the Camellias", but it became known in the English-speaking world as "Camille". It was made into a play in 1852. There was a movie version "Camille" starring Greta Garbo and released in 1936. Contrary to what might be logically assumed, the main character's name is not Camille. It's Marguerite. She is known as the Lady of the Camellias because she is a woman who is kept by various lovers and she wears a white camellia when she is available to them and a red one when she is not.
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