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Nomen à clef

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In romance languages, nomen à clef or nomen à clé ([nomen‿a kle], French for "name with a key"), is a name describing a real person, behind a façade of fiction.[1] "Key" in this context means a table one can use to swap out the names. It is the nomenclature complement of the roman à clef.

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References

  1. ^ "The films in my life" By François Truffaut, Da Capo Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-306-80599-8, pg 131