Remember that Hilbert and Hilda were named "Blair" and "Whitley" in some screenshots as well. It's possible that these are only names used during promotion.◊ This picture from the X and Y site seems to indicate Yvonne and Xavier are correct, at least in the English version.Look at her design, then look at green, then back to me. The female character's going to be named Verta, after green.So I'm going to guess it's going to be something like Jean and Joanne, because they sound sorta like 'gene' as in genetics and are French-esque names. English names rarely have anything to do with the titles, but instead something vaguely tied to the theme of the game.Yancy's already been used for a fairly important character, anyways.Because "Ximena" and "Yancy" are less recognizable and don't go together as well.But why would they have the one WITH a Y chromosome start with X, and the one WITHOUT the Y chromosome start with Y?.In addition, the primary version names the male, and the opposite names the female. The player characters' default names will be.English = Xavier and YvonneX and Y, and there are only a few names that start with those letters. My guess is it'll either be DLC, or part of the third game and/or X2/Y2, whichever we get.What this means for South France, we don't know yet.
North France, to be specific - they used the country's top half for Kalos.The map of Kalos has been released, and the overall shape is almost identical to France, with Lumiose City basically in Paris's place. We might still get areas based on other parts of Europe.There's stand-ins not only for Paris, but the Vaux-le-Vicomte Chateau and the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. We're probably going to get a region based on France, possibly (Western) Europe in general in the same fashion Unova was loosely based on NYC. Add in the fact that at beginning of the trailer, Pikachu was standing atop the actual Eiffel Tower while releasing electricity all over the world.Europe still needs to have a Pokémon counterpart, so X and Y might take place there.
The new region will be the Pokémon World's counterpart of Europe.You can see something that looks like the Eiffel Tower in the trailer, and the surrounding buildings have an European feel.