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Ségolène Royal 2007
Ségolène, also Sigolène or Sigolina, is a French language, French name, now solely feminine but previously, in the forms Ségolène, Sigolin or Sigolinus, also occasionally masculine. It is derived from a diminutive of Siga, a mediaeval hypocoristic of Germanic names having the first element ''Sig-'' (meaning "victory"). The rarer masculine form of the name was derived in the same way from the masculine hypocoristic Sigo. An alternative explanation of the feminine name is that it is the equivalent of the German name Sieglinde. The form of the name was apparently influenced by the similar Gaulish element ''Sego-'' ("victory" or "strength").X. Delamarre, ''Dictionnaire de la langue Gauloise'', 2003, p. 269 People Female * Saint Segolena of Troclar otherwise Sigolena of Albi (7th century), French abbess and saint * Ségolène Amiot (born 1986), French politician * Ségolène Berger (born 1978), French tennis player * Ségolène Girard (born 1995), Swiss volleyball player * Sé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigolène Vinson
Sigolène Vinson (born 1974) is a former lawyer and actress who became a novelist and journalist. She is the legal correspondent of ''Charlie Hebdo'', where she survived the shooting on 7 January 2015.Sophie Adriansen« Sigolène Vinson – Écrivain » ''encore-magazine.fr'', 11 October 2014 Life Vinson was born at Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon. Her family moved shortly afterwards to Clamart and then Meudon near Paris, before leaving for Djibouti because of her father's job in 1981. She returned to France in 1987. She studied for the stage but later retrained at the Sorbonne to become a lawyer. In 2007 she gave up the law to become a writer. In the same year she was awarded jointly with Philippe Kleinmann the Prix du roman d'aventures for their crime novel ''Bistouri Blues'', the first appearance of the commissaire Cush Dibbeth, who reappeared in ''Substance'' (2015). In 2011 they co-wrote an historical crime novel, ''Double Hélice''. In the same year Vinson's solo novel ''J'ai déserté ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
