All of the descendants of Adelaïde Fouque ( Tante Dide ), Eugène's grandmother, demonstrate what today would be called obsessive-compulsive behaviors to varying degrees.

All of the descendants of Adelaïde Fouque ( Tante Dide ), Saccard's grandmother, demonstrate what today would be called obsessive-compulsive behaviors to varying degrees.

He was educated by his grandmother, Adelaïde Filleul.

He also inherits from his great-grandmother ( Adelaïde Fouque or Tante Dide ) a touch of what today might be called obsessive-compulsive disorder, manifested in his intense commercial drive and his obsession with dominating female consumers.

Louise Marie Adelaïde Eugénie d ' Orléans.

The Rougon-Macquart family begins with Adelaïde Fouque.

The Treaty of Turin was negotiated under the influence of the Maréchal de Tessé who suggested that Marie Adelaïde be sent to France to perfect her education before marrying the French prince.

On 6 December 1697, on her twelfth birthday, Princess Marie Adelaïde of Savoy was formally married to the Duke of Burgundy in the Palace of Versailles.

So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

With Julie London enacting the central role with husky-voiced sincerity, the longsuffering heroine is at least attractive.

The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

It is such a character that she portrays in Edward Weston, and that her heroine Agnes Grey finds deeply appealing.

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

Jesus is also commonly thought to have died at the same age, and Catherine's heroine Mary Magdalen is said to have fasted for thirty-three years.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

Esther (; ), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.

Budd Boetticher summarises the view thus: " What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Another text in which the heroine of the Gothic Novel encounters the Supernatural Explained is The Castle of Wolfenbach ( 1793 ) by Gothic author Eliza Parsons.

The novel's heroine, Scarlett O ' Hara, charming though not beautiful, is a southern belle.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

A hero ( heroine is always used for females ) (), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

Later, hero ( male ) and heroine ( female ) came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice — that is, heroism — for some greater good of all humanity.

Hero or heroine is sometimes used to simply describe the protagonist of a story, or the love interest, a usage which can conflict with the superhuman expectations of heroism.

For similar reasons, the age of the heroine was also altered: initially stated to be a 16 year old high-schooler in the original Japanese version, she is an 18 year old college student in the US version.

Atë, ancient Greek for " ruin, folly, delusion ," is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because of his or her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his or her death or downfall.

1412 – 30 May 1431 ), nicknamed " The Maid of Orléans " (), is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint.

The heroine is at several points the catalyst to a powerful orgasm that condemned men are subjected to before they are slaughtered as they climax at the hand of those seeking the Mandragora flower.

Ten-year-old " Peggy " is the heroine in Little Sister.

The story of the syrinx is told in Achilles Tatius ' Leukippe and Kleitophon where the heroine is subjected to a virginity test by entering a cave where Pan has left syrinx pipes that will sound a melody if she passes.

* Hedviga is a character in the opera Guglielmo Tell by Gioacchino Rossini.

During this period he could really do no wrong-loaded with riches and honours, he was so famous and so formidable as a performer that his rival and friend, the castrato Gioacchino Conti (" Gizziello ") is said to have fainted away from sheer despondency on hearing him sing.

* Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.

The 20th arrondissement is also internationally known for the Père Lachaise Cemetery where one can find the burials of many famous composers ( such as Frédéric Chopin and Gioacchino Rossini ), writers ( including Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust ), painters ( Camille Pissarro, Jacques-Louis David, and others ), and the rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors.

Another famous example is La Boutique fantasque, an arrangement of Gioacchino Rossini's music by Ottorino Respighi in 1919.

Messa di Gloria is a nine movement mass, composed by Gioacchino Rossini for the Arciconfraternita di San Luigi.

' Ndrangheta boss Gioacchino Piromalli was arrested as well along with his nephew, also named Gioacchino Piromalli, who is a lawyer.

Despite being for a soprano, the arioso is sung by Meleagro ( a male character — which was taken by the castrato Gioacchino Conti in the original production ).

Much is made of how quickly Rossini's opera was written, scholarship generally agreeing upon two or three weeks.

A characteristic mannerism in Rossini's orchestral scoring is a long, steady building of sound over an ostinato figure, creating " tempests in teapots by beginning in a whisper and rising to a flashing, glittering storm ," which earned him the nickname of " Signor Crescendo ".

Rossini's opera is a pasticcio ( an opera in which the music for a new text is chosen from pre-existent music by one or more composers ).

* February 3, 1823 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.

* February 3 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.

Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

Rossini's opera, now known as Il barbiere di Siviglia, is now acknowledged as Rossini's greatest work, while Paisiello's opera is only infrequently produced — a strange instance of poetical vengeance, since Paisiello himself had many years previously endeavoured to eclipse the fame of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by resetting the libretto of his famous intermezzo, La serva padrona.

It was recognized at the time as, and is still considered, Donizetti's comic masterpiece, and remains one of the most popular of his 66 operas, as well as one of the three most popular Italian comic operas, the other two being Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Donizetti's own L ' elisir d ' amore.

One of Weaver's most enduringly popular recordings is the Spike Jones parody of Rossini's William Tell Overture.

Bizet was a great admirer of Rossini's music, and wrote not long after their first meeting that " Rossini is the greatest of them all, because like Mozart, he has all the virtues ".

Also in 2003, she went to the opera and voiced the role of Magpie, the eponymous thief in a recording of Gioachino Rossini's opera semi-seria in two acts, La gazza ladra ( The Thieving Magpie ) in which a servant girl is condemned to death for the theft of a silver spoon snatched by a magpie presumably decorating its nest to lure a mate.

Gioachino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola makes this economic basis explicit: Don Magnifico wishes to make his own daughters ' dowry larger, to attract a grander match, which is impossible if he must provide a third dowry.

It is related that when Patti's mentor ( and brother-in-law ), Strakosch, presented her to Rossini at one of his fashionable receptions during the 1860s, she was prevailed upon to sing " Una voce poco fa ", from Rossini's The Barber of Seville — with embellishments added by Strakosch to show off the soprano's voice.

* Gioachino Rossini's song " La Danza " is a Neapolitan tarantella.

( Oddly, the lead-in ( played by an invisible orchestra ) is the introduction to yet another coloratura aria, " Una voce poco fa ", from Rossini's Barber of Seville.

The music is characteristic of Rossini's style, remarkable for its fusion of sustained, manic energy with elegant, pristine melodies.

The opera is notable for Rossini's mixing of opera seria style in opera buffa.

This " surprise " reflects Rossini's early admiration for Joseph Haydn, whose Symphony No. 94 in G major, " The Surprise Symphony ", is so named for the same shocking, semi-comic effect.

Although the overture is one of several of Rossini's to be widely recorded, the opera is only occasionally performed in modern times.