Why would a parent name their child...

There was a guy in my grand'pa's village named Hildephonse Laporte.


Hildephonse is consonnant with "il défonce", i.e. "he smashed-out"


Laporte is a family name which means, litterally, "the door".

I never understood why his father had named him that way. In those days, a hundred years ago, fathers decided of a lot of things...

While writing that little blurb, I now wonder if it wasn't the mother who picked up his name.