Delphine presented her cheek for a kiss, and the physician pecked it like a timid rooster.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Delphine Lalaurie took the reins in her gloved hands and drove Dandy Brandon -- cowering in the back seat of the carriage -- to her mansion at 677 Perdido Street.

A stringed orchestra played softly behind the potted palms, and Delphine circulated graciously among her guests, chatting airily of the forthcoming races, the latest fashions from Paris, and Louisiana politics.

the coachman and Delphine were gaining on her as she raced down Perdido Street.

Reeves sang with her sisters Lois and Delphine, often performing as a solo artist under the bill, Martha Reeves of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and still performs all over the world.

In 1802, she published the first of her noteworthy books, the novel Delphine, in which the femme incomprise was in a manner introduced to French literature, and in which she herself and not a few of her intimates appeared in transparent disguise.

In a book with the same name, Comte's disciple Frederic Harrison wrote about Stael and her works: " In Delphine a woman, for the first time since the Revolution, reopened the romance of the heart which was in vogue in the century preceding.

Martha continues to perform concerts and club dates both solo and with her Vandellas — sisters Lois ( Motown-era Vandella since 1967 ) and Delphine ( since mid 1980s ).

After her death, Jacinta's step-mother, Delphine Eagle Deer, sister of Leonard Crow Dog, advocated on the young woman's behalf.

Émile de Girardin married in 1831 Delphine Gay, and after her death in 1855 Guillemette Josephine Brunold, countess von Tieffenbach, morganatic stepdaughter of Prince Frederick of Nassau.

His mother, Delphine, also came from a prestigious family and was known for her intelligence and great beauty.

She organized a run-off between two contenders ; the winner, Delphine Batho, went on to win the district for her and Royal's party.

Halévy told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star — Anna Judic, whose ménage à trois would become the model for Rose Mignon, her husband, and Fauchery — and also about famous cocottes such as Blanche d ' Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, an amalgam of which was to serve the writer as the basis for his principal character.

During this same period, and by now in her very early forties, she also played the elderly, paranoid and morose customer Mrs Delphine Featherstone ( nicknamed " The Black Widow ") in the BBC comedy Open All Hours.

" The film was shot chronologically and in 16mm so as to be " as inconspicuous as possible, to have Delphine blend into the crowd as a way, ultimately, of accentuating her isolation.

His novella Madame Delphine ( 1881 ), expanded from a short story, featured the issue of miscegenation, in which a woman of African descent tries to arrange the marriage of her daughter, who has more European ancestry, to one of the French Creole elite.

* " Trespasses " – Lauren, a young girl, meets an older woman, Delphine, who is too interested in her.

Delphine has more endurance and can survive far longer outside of water than her team.

Sometimes in the media Delphine is incorrectly titled as a Baroness, because of her mother's title.

So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.

His disciples form the second generation, with rhetoricians such as Françoise Waquet and Delphine Denis, both of the Sorbonne, or Philippe-Joseph Salazar (: fr: Philippe-Joseph Salazar on the French Wikipedia ), until recently at Derrida's College international de philosophie, laureate of the Harry Oppenheimer prize and whose recent book on Hyperpolitique has attracted the French media's attention on a " re-appropriation of the means of production of persuasion ".

The movies Place Vendôme with Catherine Deneuve ; Daughters of Darkness with Delphine Seyrig as Countess Bathory ; Armaguedon with Alain Delon ; Camping Cosmos with Lolo Ferrari ; and Ex Drummer based on the novel by Herman Brusselmans were partially shot in Ostend.

He sets out to dine with Delphine de Nucingen, however, Le Père Goriot remained largely unchanged from its initial version.

Cestro later briefly appears with Delphine in " Revelations of Gold.

Anja Dittmer with Katrien Verstuyft and Delphine Py-Bilot at Tours, 2011.

In 2004, Delphine Software closed down due to Bankruptcy and Liquidation, along with its created subsidiary, Adeline Software International, created in 1993.

She was briefly " reunited " with what she thought was James Hudson, but who really turned out to be an impostor-the robot Delphine Courtney.

His romantic forays are rocky with Christine ( Claude Jade ), and then his boss's wife ( Delphine Seyrig as Fabienne Tabard ).

In 1968, Delphine Boël was born, allegedly from an extramarital affair with Albert of Belgium, who was not king at the time.

As of March 2006, Anton is currently living in Los Angeles, California with his wife Lesley Anton and two children, Ruby and Delphine.

Cable's account ( not to be confused with his unrelated 1881 novel Madame Delphine ) was based on contemporary stories in newspapers such as the New Orleans Bee and the Advertiser, and upon Martineau's 1838 account, Retrospect of Western Travel, but mixed in some synthesis, dialogue and supposition entirely of his own creation.

It went extinct in 1940 with the death of the last fluent speaker, Delphine Ducloux.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, she was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr, an American diplomat who was U. S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick.

Delphine, an old acquaintance of his, returns to the village and tells him that Florette, his sweetheart from that period, had written to him to tell him she was carrying their child.

Delphine attended an international boarding school in Switzerland and studied at the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London, where she obtained a B. A.

Delphine gave an interview on 15 May 2005, to the France 3 presenter Marc-Olivier Fogiel in the broadcast " On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde " in which she said that she is indeed the daughter of the King.

Delphine added that her " parents " kept in touch by telephone for some years, but that this stopped some time before she was 16 ( 1984 ).

His daughter Delphine ( b. 1850 ) received a prize from the Académie française for her Les Parsis, histoire des communautés zoroastriennes de l ' Inde ( 1898 ), and was sent in 1900-1901 to British India on a scientific mission, of which she published a report in 1903.

Delphine married her third husband, physician Leonard Louis Nicolas LaLaurie, who was much younger than she, on June 25, 1825.

Lia had been brushing Delphine's hair when she hit a snag, causing Delphine to grab a whip and chase her.