It has probably not escaped you that the new generation bore the first names of your great-grandparents.
On the internet, many sites are surfing on the trend by offering lists of "100% vintage or retro trend" names.
Suzanne, Eugène, Marcel, Léonie, Auguste... These fashionable first names at the beginning of the 20th century, forgotten, reappear.
A phenomenon that affects even the circle of celebrities with actors Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard who called their son Marcel or Jamel Debbouze with his companion Mélissa Theuriau who baptized their little Léon.
Why are parents going back to choosing these names of yesteryear?
Le Figaro
interviewed the many parents who responded to our call for testimonials.
Are we witnessing a social phenomenon?
Or does it only concern a small part of the population?
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