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Lieselotte
Lieselotte Lieselotte has a warmly baroque German quality — it is the name of Enlightenment-era aristocratic ladies and bourgeois heroines of the 18th and 19th centuries. Characters with this name project charm, social grace, and a certain artlessness that conceals real determination. The name suits protagonists of German Romantic literature as well as contemporary historical fiction set in the Habsburg or Prussian worlds.
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