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Post by Dante on Nov 29, 2007 17:38:58 GMT -5
Not really. The final clarification that Beatrice was a Baudelaire only came in The Beatrice Letters (and even there it was played with) and The End, but it had previously been foreshadowed from The Hostile Hospital and The Unauthorized Autobiography, and speculated since before that, I imagine.
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cupcake
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Post by cupcake on Dec 4, 2007 12:32:05 GMT -5
maybe i made that up then heh i suppose i just assumed she was
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Post by whatisvfd on Jul 16, 2008 16:13:45 GMT -5
Wait, if Beatrice was the mother, than who was the father?
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 17, 2008 16:57:29 GMT -5
His name was Bertrand Baudelaire.
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Post by jster on Jul 25, 2008 20:32:52 GMT -5
um it was ike and aunt josephine
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Post by Dante on Dec 24, 2008 12:12:06 GMT -5
It is in a different language, which naturally uses different words for the same concept. For example, in French, V.F.D. is written V.D.C. Lora is a member of this forum who comes from Latvia, the Eastern European country.
As far as maiden names go, we don't know any character's maiden name - with the possible exception of Kit Snicket, although we don't know if she and Dewey ever married.
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Post by jessicajo93 on Sept 7, 2009 11:13:35 GMT -5
Don't we know Esme Squalor's maiden name or am I dillusional?
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Post by Dante on Sept 7, 2009 12:13:24 GMT -5
No, we don't know it. Unless it's "Geniveve," which is one of her middle names. Her full name is given as Esmé Gigi Geniveve Squalor. Her surname is apparently scribbled out in a theatre program in the U.A., suggesting there's something important about it - or that Handler didn't want to think one up at that point in case it later became important.
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Post by jessicajo93 on Sept 12, 2009 12:17:33 GMT -5
Oh, well then I guess I'm dillusional!
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Post by Christmas Chief on Sept 16, 2009 16:47:07 GMT -5
I don't think her maiden name would be that important, unless it was a last name another character in the series share. And most can be eliminated, simply because they wouldn't work out.
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Post by Dante on Sept 17, 2009 5:31:08 GMT -5
It's also unclear exactly how much light would really be shed on anything by two characters turning out to be related. If Esmé's maiden name turned out to be Anwhistle or Bass, I'm not sure that'd help us at all. But the only other option for a surname is the usual literary or historical allusion. In that sense, we could make up perfectly serviceable surnames ourselves.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Jun 4, 2010 10:02:20 GMT -5
I always assumed that Esme's maiden name is Geniveve.
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Post by Invisible on Jun 4, 2010 10:41:30 GMT -5
It can be, if you want it to be. I like to think Genivieve was her second middle name, also being the name of her French mother and the Gigi coming from her grandmother.
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