It isn't just kill marks that soldiers carve into the stocks of their rifles. I used to own a nice Savage 1942 Mk1 4T that had the name of the owner's sweetheart or wife (presumably!) marked into the forend........the rifle is long since sold, but I seem to recall her name was Yvette. It's not an exclusively Frenchicon name, but it's popular there........who knows, perhaps the rifle belonged to a French Canadianicon sniper, or it could have been one of the rifles air dropped to the Maquis.............