Elvira is possibly named for a character in Alphonse de Lamartine’s Méditations poétiques (1820) and Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1830).
An anecdotal history statement describes the first diagnosed case of the coarctation of the Aorta in Julia the daughter of the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine after the autopsy in 1832 in Beirut, the reference manuscript still exists in one of the Maronite monasteries in Mount Lebanon.
On February 19, 1826, he duelled with the poet Alphonse de Lamartine, who had compared Italians to "human dust" in his poem "Le Dernier Chant du pélerinage d'Harold".
The name honored the French writer, poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine, who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second Republic.
Named after Alphonse de Lamartine, the French poet and historian, who sprang into such wonderful popularity during the French Revolution of 1848.
Alphonse Daudet | Alphonse Mucha | Alphonse Merrheim | Alphonse de Lamartine | Alphonse Juin | Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr | Alphonse Royer | Alphonse Milne-Edwards | Alphonse Legros | Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou | Louis-Alphonse Boyer | Lamartine, Wisconsin | Camille Alphonse Faure | Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty | Alphonse Loubat | Alphonse Le Gastelois | Alphonse James de Rothschild | Alphonse Boudard | Alphonse A. Kolb | Lamartine | Claude Alphonse Delangle | Camille Alphonse Trézel | Alphonse Yanghat | Alphonse Toussenel | Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato | Alphonse Sagebien | Alphonse Roy | Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle | Alphonse Poitevin | Alphonse Picou |
She maintained friendships with Hugo, Sue, Dumas and others, including Lajos Kossuth, Alphonse de Lamartine, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, Henri Rochefort, Tony Revillon, and the United States minister to Sardinia, John Moncure Daniel.