Mononymous person break with his past. The new name combined several features. It was an anagram for a Latinized version of his family surname, "Arouet, l[e] j[eune]"; it reversed the syllables of the name of a family "château", Airvault; and it has implications of speed and daring through similarity to French expressions such as "voltige", "volte-face" and "volatile". "Arouet" would not have served the purpose, given that name's associations with "roué" and with an expression that meant "for thrashing". The 19th-century French author Marie-Henri Beyle used many pen names, most famously the mononym Stendhal, adapted from the name of the little Prussian
Fran Bennett Into College" (1989), "The Doctor" (1991), "Plymouth" (1991), "New Nightmare" (1994), "Foxfire" (1996), "The Next Best Thing" (2000) and "Jessabelle" (2014). From 1996 to 2003, she was head of the performance program in the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts. Fran Bennett Fran Bennett (born August 14, 1937) is an American actress, known for her works on television. Bennett was born in Malvern, Arkansas. She is not to be confused with the 1950s actress of the same name (born Frances Eugenia Leonard, November 25, 1934, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), who appeared as the daughter of Elizabeth