OK, people, I absolutely have to share this one because it’s too delicious. I hope we have French readers on the blog because they will truly appreciate this.
In the epilogue to her series about Brigitte Macron, Candace Owens tells the viewers that Brigitte’s family has been acting suspiciously since the mid-1800. For instance, they gave all of the boys in the family names that had “Jean” in them. Jean François, Jean Michel, Jean-Georges. What other reason could there be for this if not to try to confuse people, asks Candace.
Truly priceless stuff.
But wait. This isn’t the worst.
Brigitte’s middle name, says Candace, is Marie-Claude. Claude! It’s a male name! This got to mean… something nefarious.
Every Francophone reader has at this point died of laughter because Marie-Claude is a very normal French female name. This reminded me of how when I taught at a language school many years ago, a student from Guatemala found the name Jessica to be hysterically funny. “Yessica!” he’d snort. “”Like she always say yes! Yessica! Gringo names funny!”
Brigitte’s brother Jean-Claude married a woman called Brigitte. Like his sister. “Very convenient!” exclaims Candace. Seriously, she says “very convenient.” “Is this confusion intentional?” she asks. Because it totally makes sense that Jean-Claude would choose his bride with the express purpose of confusing Candace.
This show is comedic gold. It’s no surprise late night comedy is dead. This is so much better.
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Your series on Candace’s series is hilarious. Wait til she starts seeing men’s name in various parts of Europe where the guy’s middle name includes Marie or Maria! A network of hidden transgenders across Europe going back for centuries! Seriously, ,though, this is sad: when Owens started out with Daily Wire she did some fine work on BLM and anti-racism. I’m sorry she went off the rails.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen and Carl Maria von Weber. Maria – very suspicious in the name. Also, all those Jose Marias in Spain, something must be very, very wrong with them…
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Or Pierre-Marie.
Candace is supposed to be Catholic, I think, which makes it even more delightful that she’s so ignorant of the great Catholic cultures of Europe.
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God, I forgot Jean-Marie Le Pen. That must be so nefarious. The dude was both trans and confusing, it seems.
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Yes, she started well but intellectual limitations are severe and can’t be overcome.
In this series she accused the Macrons of “doing emotional violence” to her by withholding information.
She used to be a leftist, and “silence is violence” comes easily to her.
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She really is an idiot, Claude is a common middle name for French girls and Jean is a super common male name in French countries, it’s just French for Jean. And Maria and Marie are common middle names for men in some parts of Europe, Owens is just a provincial American who can’t fathom the idea that European white people have different customs than Americans
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“Claude is a common middle name for French girls”
Or a first name. It’s the French equivalent of Claudia.
Jean, of course, is John (like Irish Sean, Spanish Juan, Italian Giovanni etc etc) with the female form Jeanne.
When you spend a lot of time in Europe consuming culture in various languages you start to notice weird things about first names.
English doesn’t have a male equivalent of Irene but some do like Polish Ireneusz.
Romanian seems to even have a male form of Katherine (Cătălin) which I don’t know of in any other language.
Because of immigration and generally successful assimilation years ago Americans tend to perceive national variations of the ‘same’ name as separate names, so that Maria and Marie are separate from Mary. That’s far less common in European countries. The last two British Monarchs were consistently referred to as Elżbieta and Karol in Polish media.
Also, in many countries, given names have to be registered with the government which doesn’t necessarily accept versions from other languages.
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“gave all of the boys in the family names that had “Jean” in them”
Good thing they weren’t from Southern France or Catalonia…
“All these men named… Joan? What’s going on???”
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Yes, imagine that. Surviving the complexities of other cultures is painful.
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What names sound weird to someone is a very individual thing. Some years ago I knew a woman who had named her daughters Charbrice and Chantelle. One day in the course of a conversation, it came out that my daughter had a friend named Abby. The woman who had named her own daughters Charbrice and Chantelle laughed and asked in an incredulous voice, “What is an Abby?”
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I’m loving this anecdote. 😆😆😆
Thank you for sharing.
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