tones

i have great memories of staying Le Hotel des Bastards in Lector , it might have been condom but was certainly in Les Ges.  I met a few expat anglais who liked to call it The Bastard.

on the french forename issue it occured to me that Mrs johnh's (she's french) first name comes from a french tv series circa 74 and that any other french women, with the same name , are likley to be born around the same time. This rather blows my proposition that there is a french book of allowed names out the water.

My thought probably orginated from the feeling that if ever there was a race who would have a book of names to pick from it would be the french.

sandrine by the way