Can you continue the French Names Chain?

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The discussion revolves around a chain game featuring French names, where participants respond with names starting with the last letter of the previous name. The conversation highlights the challenge of finding French names, particularly those starting with less common letters like K. Participants explore the origins of names, questioning whether names of Latin or Greek origin can be included if they have French variants or personal significance, such as family names. The dialogue also touches on the difficulty of avoiding names that end with the letter 'e,' as many French names do. Notable names mentioned include Abban, Émile, Étienne, Edmond, Daniel, Lamarck, and various others, illustrating the diversity and complexity of French naming conventions.
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Lets make a chain that would cover French Names. I will start with a French name and next person will answer the name which will start with the last letter of the name.
I'll start with Abban.
 
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Émile

Question: many names have got Latin or Greek origin and are used in many European countries and the US with only slight changes. Can French versions of these names be used too or does it have to have 100% ethymological French origin?
 
What if the name is your French Grandmother's middle name?
 
Étienne

And for the sake of changing the letter a reminiscence of Dumas: Edmond.
 
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Daniel (based on the last letter of fresh_42's choice of French name, Edmond).
 
Lamarck (Jean-Baptiste, originator of theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics)
 
Is this first name or last name, or either?

Karine (Saporta), French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director.

It seems that French names starting with K are not too common.

For a last name, there is Philippe Katerine, a French singer, or computer scientist Gilles Kahn.
 
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Lamarck (Jean-Baptiste, originator of theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics)
"k" is a bit mean for a french word. Luckily Europe is a rather small continent and people traveled a lot.
My suggestions are: Katell (Breton for Catherine) as a first name, and Jean-Baptiste Kléber (french general) for a family name.
 
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Lamarck (Jean-Baptiste, originator of theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics)
I admit that out of the various "L" family names I chose the one I thought would be most tricky to follow.
It's quite difficult not landing back at "e" for French names, as so many names end with it.
 
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I admit that out of the various "L" family names I chose the one I thought would be most tricky to follow.
It is quite a challenge, but not impossible.

I'd forgotten about skier Jean-Claude Killy.
 
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My cousin Katherine, it might have been spelled Katarin, that's how it was pronounced. For L there is Lily, or Liliane.
 
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