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 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 Taylor and Rock Hudson in the 1956 film "Giant". She made her acting debut in theater, before making her television debut on the daytime soap opera, "Guiding Light". Bennett later had guest-starring roles in "", "Lou Grant", "Dallas", "Falcon Crest", "Knots Landing", "L.A. Law",