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Annette
Annette Annette carries the French diminutive elegance of a name that has transformed Hebrew divine grace into something intimate and Gallic — the theological becomes personal, the scriptural becomes fashionable. It is a name associated in French culture with a certain refined femininity, the world of Paris apartments and Normandy summers, where grace is a social as much as a spiritual quality. A character named Annette inhabits a world where emotional intelligence and social refinement are the highest practical virtues.
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Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
A character reflecting Wharton's world of French and American social constraint — though Zeena (Zenobia) and Mattie Silver dominate Wharton's actual Ethan Frome, Annette evokes her French-influenced social world.
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