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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:13:00 LCL
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- From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
- Subject: Unusual names
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- I read an Associated Press article in the Los Angeles Times this morning
- about how some governments (in this case, France) try to control the names
- that parents give to children.
-
- In the article, an unnamed couple wanted to name their newborn daughter Marie
- Marie Marie. A lower court said that they couldn't do it, because "it does
- not enrich the French heritage."
-
- An upper court in La Rochelle overturned the ruling, but the article doesn't
- say why.
-
- The parents said they wanted to call the baby Marie Marie Marie because:
- She weighed 3.33 kilos when born
- Her head and chest measured 33 centimeters
- She was 51 centimeters long (a multiple of three)
- Her mother was 33 years old when the baby was born
- When the baby was born, she was 'gironde' (plump), and the license plate
- prefix for France's Gironde region is 33.
-
- I hope the girl forgives them. :-)
-
- Rick Kitchen
- kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
-