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Sabine
Sabine Sabine carries the ancient Roman heritage of one of Italy's oldest peoples alongside the French Catholic tradition — a name of quiet classical dignity that projects intelligence and self-possession. In contemporary French fiction, characters named Sabine tend to be women of culture and independent spirit who carry their history lightly but definitively, suited to stories of intellectual French women, historical novels of Roman antiquity, and contemporary literary fiction.
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