Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)

At 13:48 +0100 24.1.2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> "revival": to take the name of a ancestor of yours which has
>completely disappeared, in order to "revive" it. The problem is that you
>have to make a file with evidence that it's worth reviving this name...
Would it be possible to look up some funky name in the early Middle Ages
and then make up a good case that you were descended from that person? ;-)

>
>On the other hand, two married people have a "right of use" of the other
>partner's name. That means that the woman can use her own name, her husband
>name or even make a compound name out of them. But the man can do the same
>with his wife's name (it's not of common use, but law allows it).
In pre-revolutionary France it was quite common to use <father's surname> +
de + <mother's maiden surname>.  Has that died out completely?  Would it at
all be permitted now?

I wonder BTW how they are going to maintain these differences within the
EU?  If you (or I) were to take a job in London, move there, go to a public
barrister and change your name, what could the French authorities do, since
you did everything according to the law in the EU country where you did it?


/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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