ground and is the site of the Château de Vincennes, preferred residence of French royalty in the late Middle Ages, was named CAPET VIN . Presumably after the House of Capet, who ruled France from 987 to 1328. The word VIN isn’t so clear, but the substation in question was within the building of a supermarket. I found one very recently called PHALENE . Unsure what the word meant I looked it up, it is the name of a family of moths and butterflies. I then remembered that the street I had seen it in was the rue des Papillons – Butterfly Street. This struck me as quite beautiful. It could have simply been called PAPILLON , but someone
had made the effort to find a slightly less obvious word. I began to wonder what was going on behind the scenes. Is a there a would-be poet amongst the electrical engineers working for ENEDIS ? Or was I reading too much into what is nothing more than a rational process of generating a name through geographical association? Perhaps there is not even a real person behind the process, just an algorithm.
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