' 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.

* Madame Charpentier and Her Children ( 1878 )

* 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.

He gaped at Madame Lalaurie and sniffed the Paris perfume which emanated from her.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2009.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

In Germany, Ernst Lubitsch got his inspiration from the stage work of Max Reinhardt, both in bourgeois comedy and in spectacle, and applied this to his films, culminating in his die Puppe ( The Doll ), die Austernprinzessin ( The Oyster Princess ) and Madame Dubarry.

* Traditional Moroccan Cooking: Recipes from Fez, by Madame Guinaudeau ISBN 1-897959-43-5 http :// www. serifbooks. co. uk / books / cookery /

They range in size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs only, to the eastern lowland gorilla, weighing over.

Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded to power by his eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo, from a previous marriage, with whom Madame Chiang had rocky relations.

The historical novel Mayling ( 2012 ) by Dutch author Lucas Zandberg portrays the life of Madame Chiang from a first-person perspective.

Stories from that era, such as Nie Yinniang ( 聶隱娘 ), The Kunlun Slave, Thirteenth Madame Jing ( 荆十三娘 ), Red String ( 紅線 ) and The Bearded Warrior ( 虬髯客 ), served as prototypes for modern wuxia stories.

One popular work from the género ínfimo years is La corte de Faraón ( 1910 ), by Vicente Lleó, which was based on the French operetta Madame Putiphar.

** Madame de Meuron, famed Swiss noble lady and eccentric from Bern ( d. 1980 )

* July 11 – André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France, banishes Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, and Madame de Prie from court.

The benefactor was aware of the political or social favors expected by the courtesan, the courtesan was aware of the price expected from them for those favors being carried out, and the two met one another's demands, an example being Madame de Pompadour.

* Madame Gabrielle from Dora Levy Mossanen.

" The Italians were expelled from France in 1697 for satirizing King Louis XIV's second wife, Madame de Maintenon, but returned in 1716 ( after his death ), when Tommaso Antonio Vicentini (" Thomassin ", 1682 – 1739 ) became famous in the part.

( The term itself comes from the translation of Madame D ' Aulnoy's conte de fées, first used in her collection in 1697.

Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, given the honorific title at birth of Madame Royale, was finally born at Versailles, after a particularly difficult labour, on 19 December 1778, following an ordeal where the queen literally collapsed from suffocation and hemorrhaging.

On 5 October, a mob from Paris descended upon Versailles and forced the royal family, along with the comte de Provence, his wife and Madame Elisabeth, to move to Paris under the watchful eye of the Garde Nationale.

" " You'd have liked a few things from the Uffizi and the Pitti -- that what you'd have liked ," said Madame Merle.

After the completion of The Source, Ingres produced paintings of historical genre, such as two versions of Louis XIV and Molière, ( 1857 and 1860 ), as well as several religious works in which the figure of the Virgin from The Vow of Louis XIII is reprised: The Virgin of the Adoption of 1858 ( painted for Mademoiselle Roland-Gosselin ) was followed by The Virgin Crowned ( painted for Madame la Baronne de Larinthie ) and The Virgin with Child.

The last of his important portrait paintings date from this period: Marie-Clothilde-Inés de Foucauld, Madame Moitessier, Seated ( 1856 ), Self-Portrait at the Age of Seventy-nine and Madame J .- A .- D. Ingres, née Delphine Ramel, both completed in 1859.