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Not so in France, where names are part of the patrimoine , the national heritage, and are not to be altered or forsaken lightly: a poet friend had to spend several years and a lot of money to get a missing s restored to the official version of his surname, so that now, instead of being B\acap\tard `mongrel' he's plain old Bastard and, what's more, is very happy about it.
Or they tacked on the first name of his father or grandfather, who himself, reflecting Italy's tangled history, tended to be called by some version of a Latin, ancient Germanic, saint's, or Old Testament name: Giovanni Fabrizio derived his surname from Fabricius, Giovanni Alighieri from Aldiger, Giovanni Ciccarelli from Francis , and Giovanni Giacobazzi from Jacob .
' Without this explanation, the information that surname is from French surnom seems to me to be of very little interest.
Hanks and Hodges list no fewer than 90 Italian surname forms of Giacobo (Jacob) , for instance, and a further 76 variations of Giacomo (James) , itself a New Testament derivative of Giacobo .
The show was created by one of Schell's former pupils, who gave some of its characters the surname of Schell's former assistant.