Why is Mariann so called in france?

Question

Why is Mariann so called in france?

Answer 1

Cabal is right !

It's all written in Wikipedia here :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne

if you can read french ...?!

Answer 2

It's Marie-Anne isn't it?  I always thought it was after the Queen Marie-Antoinette (beheaded in the 1789 Revolution), but not quite.  I could be completely wrong but it gives you a starting point.  Go and have a look at this:

http://www.terrace.qld.edu.au/academic/l...

Answer 3

That was a low class name at the time of the Revolution. Using it to represent France was done on purpose to tell the French noble class (and the rest of the world) that the new order was not theirs. Marianne was the name of their servants, not of a high brow blue blood.

It comes from a song in occitan, la Garisou de Marianno (the healing of Marianne) written by Guillaume Lavabre which was very popular at that time. It told of the ups and down of the new system as it struggled to create itself. The name was adopted for the avatar of France.