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I stumbled upon a French 19th century astronomer with a first name I found swoonworthy: Mathieu-Prosper. His brother who was an astronomer too, but had a less interesting name: Paul-Pierre.
WDYT of Mathieu-Prosper (and Paul-Pierre)? :)
ETA: On French Wikipedia he's called Prosper-Mathieu. Almost as nice, but I wonder what's correct?
WDYT of Mathieu-Prosper (and Paul-Pierre)? :)
ETA: On French Wikipedia he's called Prosper-Mathieu. Almost as nice, but I wonder what's correct?
This message was edited 10/4/2012, 11:29 AM
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Mathieu-Prosper is so lovely! I love the name Prosper. Prosper-Mathieu is also nice but I think the flow is better the other way.
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I like it. It's definitely cool. I agree that in person it would seem ultra pretentious, but, eh, what's wrong with the odd bit of pretentious naming? Pretentious name tastes and a less than pretentious attitude is far better than the other way round, tbh. I guess if I actually saw it on person on a toddler I might change my mind.
Prosper-Mathieu is okay, but not as nice in my view.
Off topic a bit, but one of the staff at my local doctor's surgery is called Prosper. :) He's of mainly francophone African descent. It's not a name I was really aware was used in French speaking cultures before I met him.
Prosper-Mathieu is okay, but not as nice in my view.
Off topic a bit, but one of the staff at my local doctor's surgery is called Prosper. :) He's of mainly francophone African descent. It's not a name I was really aware was used in French speaking cultures before I met him.
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Prosper-Mathieu Henry is his name
His name is "Prosper-Mathieu Henry" it doesn't come up as "Mathieu Prosper" when I look at French wiki, were you using a translator? When I use one for Italian sometimes it changes names but if I hold the cursor over it it will show the original information which sometimes helps.
His name is "Prosper-Mathieu Henry" it doesn't come up as "Mathieu Prosper" when I look at French wiki, were you using a translator? When I use one for Italian sometimes it changes names but if I hold the cursor over it it will show the original information which sometimes helps.
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No, I wasn't. The English Wikipedia article says Mathieu-Prosper (but only calls him Prosper Henry in the title) and the French Prosper-Mathieu.
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Oops
I misread it sorry
I misread it sorry
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It's neat in the French 19th century astronomer context. If I saw that on a baby today I would think his parents were pretentious yuppies (assuming he wasn't French-born). And even then, screams pretentious. But in the old school context, it's cool. Paul-Pierre is nice too, even on a modern person.
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Hmm, cool name. :)
You know what, there were actually people in old France who had double hyphenated names! There was a painter called Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, for example. I remember I've even seen a TRIPLE hyphenated name once, on a photographer!
You know what, there were actually people in old France who had double hyphenated names! There was a painter called Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, for example. I remember I've even seen a TRIPLE hyphenated name once, on a photographer!
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I have seen double hyphenated names, but not triple. Very fascinating! I wonder if that would even be allowed here and now?
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