Besides Francesca, there was Blanche.

Francesca was pleasant and charming, but Blanche was sweet.

Yes, Blanche was very, very sweet -- being in her company was like being drowned in warm, melted marshmallows.

After five minutes with Blanche, one might welcome the astringency of Grazie, who was a sort of Gwen Cafritz to Francesca's Perle Mesta.

For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of guilty, but nonetheless soaring, happy hope.

For Blanche, it was only a matter of time before Stanley would propose.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

It might have been easier for her if Kitti Walker hadn't been everything that Blanche was not.

Blanche knew all this because the door to Stanley's office was open and, without straining too hard, she could hear everything that was said.

He was the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou.

Born at Poissy, Alphonse was a son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile.

There was some resistance to his accession as count, which was suppressed with the help of his mother Blanche of Castile who was acting as regent in the absence of Louis IX.

In 1252, on the death of his mother, Blanche of Castile, Alphonse was joint regent with Charles of Anjou until the return of Louis IX.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

ITV honoured Blanche and Maggie with a half-hour special, Goodbye Blanche, which was aired after the funeral.

By the autumn of 1537, Elizabeth was in the care of Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy who remained her Lady Mistress until her retirement in late 1545 or early 1546.

Catherine Champernowne, better known by her later, married name of Catherine " Kat " Ashley, was appointed as Elizabeth's governess in 1537, and she remained Elizabeth's friend until her death in 1565, when Blanche Parry succeeded her as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber.

His mother — Blanche of Castile — was the effective power as regent ( although she did not formally use the title ).

Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.

In 1949 she had her first major success in the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams and staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre.

* Ravel's Boléro is one of his most famous works, originally written as a ballet score for his patron Blanche Lapin or commissioned by Ida Rubinstein, but now usually played as a concert piece.

* In the 2011 novel Carte Blanche written by Jefferey Deaver, the character of James Bond states that he is a practitioner of Systema.

McEwan has also written two children's books, Rose Blanche ( 1985 ) The Daydreamer ( 1994 ).

The intimacy did not last long, but it produced Rose et Blanche ( 1831 ), a novel written together under the pseudonym J.

* The poem " Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight ", written in 1867 by the American poet Rose Hartwick Thorpe, was also based on the legend of the Chertsey heroine Blanche Heriot.

* Clair de Lune, a stage play written by Blanche Oelrichs under her male pseudonym Michael Strange, which ran for 64 performances on Broadway from April to June 1921.

Four years later after her divorce from Gründgens, Hoppe had a great success as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and increasingly played avant-garde roles, written by authors such as Heiner Muller ( Quartett, 1994 ) and Thomas Bernhard, who became her partner in private life as well.

*" The Chevalier of the Place Blanche ": In the English-language version of a work by the author's first husband, Jean Lenglet ( written under his nom-de-plume of Edouard de Nève ), the title character shares his desire with a British lady in a 1920s Paris restaurant.

is a single-player four-part adventure gamebook series written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Blanche.

She accepted the role at short notice, as storylines for Blanche had already been written.

There are four poems written by Adenes: the Enfances Ogier, an enfeebled version of the Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche ( Ogier the Dane ) written by Raimbert de Paris at the beginning of the century ; Berte aus granspies, the history of the mother of Charlemagne, founded on well-known traditions which are also preserved in the anonymous Chronique de France, and in the Chronique rimee of Philippe Mousket ; Bueves de Comarchis, belonging to the cycle of romance gathered round the history of Aimeri de Narbonne ; and a long roman d ' aventures, Cleomades, borrowed from Spanish and Moorish traditions brought into France by Blanche, daughter of Louis IX, who after the death of her Spanish husband returned to the French court.

Jones, who had previously auditioned for the role, accepted an offer to take over the part at short notice as storylines had already been written for Blanche.

Jazz Baby, Cover of a 1919 American music sheetJazz Baby is a song published in 1919, written by Blanche Merrill and M. K.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

Elvira comes to find out why Blanche can't be reached on the phone and why Jane won't let her go upstairs to Blanche's room.

As Jane unlocked the gates, Blanche tried to run her down with the car, but Jane moved out of the way.

Around noon on the same day, RAF Hawker Typhoon of the 2TAF was called in to assist the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion in stopping an attack by the 2nd SS Panzer Division between Sourdeval and Mortain but instead fired its rockets at two US 3-inch guns near L ' Abbaye Blanche, killing one man and wounding several others even after the yellow smoke ( which was to identify friendlies ) was put out.

One of the Professors, Lady Blanche, doles out the punishments for the day, for " offences " that include bringing chessmen to the university — " men with whom you give each other mate " — and for sketching a double-perambulator.

Though indignant at first, she is persuaded to keep the men's secret when her daughter points out that if Hilarion is able to woo Princess Ida, Blanche will become head of the university ( Now, wouldn't you like to rule the roast?

In 1254 Louis ' money ran out, and his presence was needed in France where his mother and regent Blanche of Castile had recently died.

Two years before, in 1239 fighting had broken out in the Holy Land involving Theobald I of Navarre, who was Theobald III and Blanche of Navarre's son.

When Louis found out about the oath, he immediately asked the pope to excuse Philip from the vow on the grounds that he himself had not authorized it, and the pope immediately obliged, ending Margaret's attempt to make herself a second Blanche of Castile.

Also, plans are being carried out to convert the Blanche Brook " Flood Zone " in the center of town into a green space and central park facility which will become the focal point for future community celebrations.

Stanley starts asking questions of a street merchant who knew Blanche in her old life, and finds out that Blanche is staying with the Kowalskis because she is homeless ; her family's ancestral mansion, Belle Reve, has been mortgaged.

The night that Stella gives birth to their son, Stanley goes out and gets drunk in celebration, and finds a similarly drunk Blanche, lost in fantasies of better times, when he returns home.

In the series finale of The Golden Girls, Sophia, after initially deciding to follow the now-married Dorothy out of the house, turns back and decides to stay with Rose and Blanche, which sets up the transition to The Golden Palace.

Terre ' Blanche pointed out that his defence attorney suddenly resigned as a member of the ultra-conservative white Conservative Party's Volksraad and joined the ANC shortly after the conclusion of the court case.

In episode 113 of The Golden Girls, entitled " Ebb Tide ," Sophia sings a variation of the song with a group of guests, to whom she is renting rooms while Blanche and Dorothy are out of town.

Letter columns in some newspapers called the show a farce and used the term " whites with cellphones " to explain the presence of Hendrik Verwoerd and Eugène Terre ' Blanche high on the rankings .< ref name =" 152. 111. 1. 87 "> This view was rebutted by Afrikaans singer-songwriter Steve Hofmeyr who pointed out that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, post-apartheid convicted fraudster, scored high on the list as well .< ref > According to Peter Matlare, CEO of the SABC, the show was stopped because " wider participation in the voting process " was necessary.

Winter guest-starred in The Golden Girls as a blind man who goes out with Blanche, whom she does not want to go out with because he is blind, in the episode " Blind Date ".

Blanche overcame her apprehension of dating Ted, who was in a wheelchair, only to find out he was married, so she terminated the relationship based on the fact that she has never been the " other woman " in extramarital affairs and never wanted to be.

On the show, Blanche is portrayed as a promiscuous woman, with her initials spelling out the word " BED.

Another episode had Blanche discovering Roses ' attempts to find out her age, whereupon she says that she will-on the condition that Rose tell how much she weighs, which results in them both giving obvious fake answers.

After David confided in Blanche, she told Janet that she wanted David to live with her, leading to a bitter falling out between mother and daughter.