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[edit] Estella?

Removed "Jean Simmons (b.1929), for example as Estella Havisham in David Lean’s 1947 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations" - if anything, Estella is the opposite of a gamine. She is much too sophisticated and cruel to qualify.

What about Jean Simmons per se? She is frequently cited as such. --IXIA 22:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Can you think of any movies where she is gamine-ish? If so, go for it. Clarityfiend 05:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

OK. Somebody seems to have reinstated what was there before, but I'll have a think and amend as necessary.

Have added ref to Angel Face (see, eg, the picture of her on her Wikipedia entry)--IXIA 20:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

"Eponymous" is a nice word, but isn't it used the wrong way in this article? Doesn't it sound like the movie named the girl (Amelie), and not the other way around? Or am I wrong? Benjaminmyklebust 01:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

You are probably right. Though it does sound nice. Will alter! IXIA 18:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

This article appears to have vandalised by someone with a penchant from Spanish. IXIA 15:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Jane Birkin?

Jane Birkin. Gamine or no? -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 16:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lexicography

Removed "French for a young street Arabess" : false statement.

Removed also "Gamin(e) is connected with the English “game” (in the sense of spirited)." : very dubious. The origin of the word in unknown. However there is two hypothesis : according to Gossen, the word is formed on the german stem gamm- ; according to Schmidt-Göbel, it comes from the german gemeiner(a simple soldier). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.170.23.29 (talk) 20:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] les miserables

If memory serves me correctly the word gamin was used in this book which was published around 1860, but I can only read the English translation so maybe that is not the orginal word used by the author

71.114.168.247 (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)