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I have wanted to post on this subject for some while, on my cross country journey to Brico-depot I pass several houses invillages in the Pas de Calais and a couple on a main trunk road that carry names, I thought that they were all owned by the English but then I saw one name that seemed odd on two houses in adjoining villages.

The ones that I can recall are

"Chez Nous"

"Llamedos" (think backwards!)

"Mon repos"

"Esperance"

And the 2 odd ones are both "Mon idole"

Do you know of any French that have named their houses other than for historical or commercial reasons?

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I went for a long hike with a friend today, we passed a holiday baracque that had a name sign which didnt make any sense to either of us, she thought it was English, I though it was French, we reckon some of the letters had fallen off!!!

Anyway I asked her about the French naming houses and she said it is very common for residences secondaire, somewhere that you really like that makes you happy, shame they cant feel that way about their main homes.

She reckons mon idole is not strange and explained that in French you can idolise something that you are fond of or makes you happy, you can tell that I didnt really understand her explanation but at least I know that mon idole is OK for a holiday home.

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I have a Llamedos three doors down from me.

And I used to live three doors along from 'tuksumduin'. And it was right, they had worked very hard renovating.

 

I can't think of one house in my old village with a name. When I first got there we all lived in quartiers, and had no streetnames or numbers. The postie was very good.

 

 

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