 She was first given the name Marie de France by the French scholar Claude Fauchet in 1551, in his "Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poesie françoise", and this name has been used ever since.She wrote in Francien, a dialect localized around Paris and Île-de-France, but there is presence of an Anglo-Norman dialect in her writings.Hence scholars generally deduce she lived in the parts of Île-de-France close to Normandy, or alternatively in an area in-between such as Brittany or Vexin.