XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.french   
   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 02/08/2024 à 04:22, HenHanna a écrit :   
   >   
   > re: names (use of capitals in France)   
   >   
   > by the 1980's,  this usage-convention was everywhere   
   >                                -- Guy VINCENT    
   --  Vincent GUY   
   >   
   > When did it begin?   
   >   
   >           Was it sometimes used on the covers (and Spines)   
   > of books  in  1920's ???   
   >   
   >                1850's ???   
      
   I don't think it has to do with books, rather with bureaucracy, and it   
   must arise from sometimes, but not always, writing the surname first.   
   Then it becomes necessary to distinguish...   
      
   « Marie Valentin : est-ce une femme, un homme ? MARIE Valentin / Marie   
   VALENTIN » -   
      
      
   There is an extensive discussion there, but (apart from a reference to   
   'Lacombe Lucien' - LACOMBE, Lucien - and therefore the War (it's a   
   film)) I don't see a date.   
      
   I did wonder if it came in with telephone directories, but can find no   
   support for this.   
      
   That's all I know. I know it's not enough.   
      
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