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 Walsh Fran Walsh Frances Rosemary Walsh (born 10 January 1959) is a New Zealand screenwriter, film producer and lyricist. She has won BAFTA and Academy awards for her music, film producing, and script writing. She is the long-time partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson. Fran Walsh has contributed to all of Peter Jackson's films since 1989: as co-writer since "Meet the Feebles", and as producer since "". She won three Academy Awards in 2003, for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song, all for "". She has received seven Oscar nominations. Walsh was born into a family of Irish descent