Garance is a given name that is derived from , which is the French name of the plant ''
Rubia tinctorum
''Rubia tinctorum'', the rose madder or common madder or dyer's madder, is a herbaceous perennial plant species belonging to the bedstraw and coffee family Rubiaceae.
Description
The common madder can grow up to 1.5 m in height. The evergreen ...
.'' It also refers to the deep red color, also known as
rose madder
Rose madder (also known as madder) is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant '' Rubia tinctorum''.
Madder lake contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpur ...
, from the dye derived from the plant.
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Notable people with the name include:
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Garance Doré (born 1975), French photographer
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Garance Genicot (born 1974), Belgian-American economist
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Garance Le Guillermic (born 1997), French actress
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Garance Marillier (born 1998), French actress
Notes
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