' Her face, with its glamour-gorgon makeup, softens, as Madame Armfeldt seems to melt into memory itself, and the wan stage light briefly appears to borrow radiance from her.

Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897.

* Samuel C. Chu, ed., Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Her China ( Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2004 ).

Her most famous novel was Madame de ..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica.

Her relationship with the comtesse du Barry was one which was important to rectify, at least on the surface, because Madame du Barry was the mistress of Louis XV, and thus had considerable political influence over the king.

Her lady-in-waiting Madame de Motteville wrote the story of the queen's life in her Mémoires d ' Anne d ' Autriche.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

Other test films by Case in his process include Miss Manila Martin and Her Pet Squirrel ( 1921 ), Bird in a Cage ( 1923 ), Madame Fifi ( 1925 ), and Chinese Variety Performer with a Ukelele ( 1925 ) and Gallagher and Shean ( 1925 ), all recorded in a sparse studio located on the second floor of the Case estate carriage house in Auburn, New York, now a museum.

Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the film Nanny McPhee ( 2005 ), Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.

Her only other first billed roles were in Madame X ( 1937 ) and Love is a Headache.

Her official sponsor, Madame de Béarn, presented her to the Court at Versailles on 22 April 1769.

Her most bitter rival was the Duchesse Béatrix de Grammont, Choiseul's sister, who had in vain tried her best to acquire the place of the late Marquise de Pompadour, and according to Madame Adélaïde, Béatrix de Grammont would have disdained the comtesse no matter what.

Her 1962 novel, Madame Sousatzka, was made into a film in 1988, with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.

Her association with several prominent dignitaries and public figures from across Europe has earned Madame Geoffrin an international spot of recognition.

Her contralto voice and attractive appearance gained Madame Vestris her first leading role at age 18 in Italian opera in the title-role of Peter Winter's II ratto di Proserpina at the King's Theatre in 1815.

Her notable theatrical roles include Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It ( 1984 ), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( 1985 ), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew ( 1987 ), Winnie in Happy Days ( 2007 ), and the title roles in Electra ( 1988 ), The Good Person of Sechuan ( 1989 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1991 ), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1998 ) and Medea ( 2000 ).

Her honorary nicknames include the " First Lady of Physics ", the " Chinese Marie Curie ", and " Madame Wu ".

Her lengthy novels, such as Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus ( 10 vols., 1648 – 53 ), Clélie ( 10 vols., 1654 – 61 ), Ibrahim, ou l ' illustre Bassa ( 4 vols., 1641 ), Almahide, ou l ' esclave reine ( 8 vols., 1661-3 ) were the delight of Europe, commended by other literary figures such as Madame de Sévigné.

Her family received further scorn as her sister, Trần Lệ Chi, who was married to Nguyển Hữu Châu had a French lover named Etienne Oggeri, and critics alleged that Madame Nhu introduced the laws so that her sister's husband could not get a divorce.

Her first marriage made her Madame de Stuers until her divorce.

Her godparents were her paternal uncle The Prince Leopold ( for whom The Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel ( represented by Prince Francis of Teck ); Count Gleichen ; the Duchess of Nassau ( for whom Princess Francis of Teck ); the King of Sweden and Norway ( who was represented by Baron Hochschild, the Swedish minister ); the Princess of Leiningen ( represented by Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde ); her maternal aunt the Tsarevna of Russia ( represented by the Baroness de Brunnow, the Russian ambassador's wife ); the Crown Princess of Denmark ( represented by Madame de Bülow, the Danish Minister's wife ); and the Duchess of Inverness ( widow of Queen Victoria's uncle the Duke of Sussex ).

Her mother, the well-known Madame Sophie Gay, brought her up in the midst of a brilliant literary society.

An intimate friend of the Queen, Yolande de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, was appointed Governess to the Royal Children, Madame Royale, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France and the young Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy, the future Louis XVII.

Louis Stanislas found comfort in his governess, Madame de Marsan, Governess of the Children of France, ( Gouvernante des Enfants de France ), as he was her favourite among his siblings.

He was raised by Madame de Marsan, the Governess of the Children of France.

Korda made his final German film Madame Wants No Children ( 1926 ) for the American studio's Fox's Berlin-based subsidiary.

* Madame Wants No Children ( 1926 )

A photo studio which took formal photos of the first Chinese leadership, the New China Woman and Children Department Store helped established by Soong Ching-ling ( Madame Sun Yat-sen ) are also located on the street.

File: Carolos-Duran Mother and Children. jpg | Madame Faydou and her Children ( 1897 )

His lover was Marie Louise de Rohan, Madame de Marsan, future Governess of the Children of France.

* Madame Wants No Children ( 1926 )

* Ann Lohman ( 1812 – 1878 ) a. k. a. Madame Restell, 19th century purveyor of patent medicine and abortions

; J Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopaedists ( London, 1878 ); DG Mostratos, Die Pädagogik des Helvétius ( Berlin, 1891 ); A Guillois, Le Salon de Madame Helvétius ( 1894 ); A Piazzi, Le idee filosofiche specialmente pedagogiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Milan, 1889 ); Georgi Plekhanov, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus ( Stuttgart, 1896 ); L Limentani, Le teorie psicologiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Verona, 1902 ); A Keim, Helvétius, sa vie et son œuvre ( 1907 ); Isaiah Berlin, " Helvétius " in Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Liberty, ed.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Image: 5th Avenue. jpg | Fifth Avenue, 1878: illustration from The Wickedest Woman in New York: Madame Restell, the Abortionist by Clifford Browder

Favart and his wife appeared in fictionalised form in Offenbach's 1878 opéra comique, Madame Favart ; their second son, Charles Nicolas Favart was an actor and dramatist.

His novels have developed in style from the morbidity and brutality of Les morts bizarres ( 1876 ), La Glu ( 1881 ) and Le Pavé ( 1883 ) to the more thoughtful psychology of Madame André ( 1878 ), Sophie Monnier ( 1884 ), Cisarine ( 1888 ), L ' Aîné ( 1893 ), Grandes amoureuses ( 1896 ) and La Gibasse ( 1899 ), and the more simple portrayal of life in Miarka ( 1883 ), Les Braves Gens ( 1886 ), Truandailles ( 1890 ), La Miseloque ( 1892 ) and Flamboche ( 1895 ).

Other celebrated productions included Much Ado About Nothing, The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the immensely popular Faust by William Gorman Wills ( 1885, which even drew applications for reserved seats from foreigners ), Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ), Henry VII ( 1892 ), Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ( 1895 ), Cymbeline ( 1896 ) and Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ).

Her latest projects are Americano, Caleuche: The Call of the Sea, Casas de Cartón and Gigola where she plays feminist Laure Charpentier.

Charpentier and her children, 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

From 1878 he worked as professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory where his pupils included André Bloch, Gustave Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn, Georges Enesco, and Charles Koechlin.