* August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer ( d. 1882 )

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* August 25 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan ( d. 1688 )

In keeping with French royal tradition that princes should be put in the care of men when they reached their seventh birthdays, Louis was separated from his governess, Madame de Ventadour, in February 1717, and placed in the care of the Duke of Villeroi, who had been designated as his governor in Louis XIV's will of August 1714 and whose secretary was the young Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps.

Alain Decaux wrote: " Madame de Rambaud was officially in charge of the care of the Dauphin from the day of his birth until 10 August 1792, in other words, for seven years.

* August 17-Anne Dacier ( Madame Dacier ) ( born c. 1654 )

Trần Lệ Xuân ( 22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011 ), popularly known as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.

The United States in a position of some leverage owing to the considerable US aid flowing into South Vietnam, gave President Diem an ultimatum in August 1963 to distance himself from both his brother and Madame Nhu.

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier ( 1654 – 17 August 1720 ), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar and translator of the classics.

From August 27 to November 21, 1951, Wong starred in a detective series that was written specifically for her, the DuMont Television Network series The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, in which she played the title role which used her birth name.

* " Madame Rosette "-First published in Harper's in August 1945.

From January 8 until August 24, 2008, she played the role of Madame Morrible in the Los Angeles production of Wicked.

However, things must have been ironed out, because August of the following year found the " far-famed unambulist performing his arduous and daring exploits " at the gardens, followed by " Madame Veroni's magic exploits ".

Upon discovering Pauline's deceit, he rebuked her with, " Please understand, Madame, that there is no princess snub to Pauline's newly assumed princely status through her August marriage where I am.

Rose Perrine le Roy de la Corbinaye ( December 10, 1730 – August 5, 1799 ) was a French actress, best known under the name of Madame Bellecour.

In August 1979 Son Sann went to Thailand with his sons ( Son Soubert and Son Monir ), Neang Chin Han ( former Director of the Executive Cabinet under President Lon Nol ), Madame Suon Kaset Sokhomaly, Colonel Thou Thip, Colonel Ea Chuor Kim Meng, Suon Sophat and Buon Say, all from France.

Her recent performances include roles of La Cieca in La Gioconda, Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda, the title role in Rossini's Tancredi, the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Isabella in Rossini's L ' italiana in Algeri, Erda in Wagner's Ring Cycle ( at the Seattle Opera ), Klytämnestra in Richard Strauss's Elektra ( with the Canadian Opera Company ), Madame de la Haltière in Massenet's Cendrillon ( at London's Royal Opera House ), and the title role in Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia ( in the work's US premiere at the Caramoor International Music Festival in July 2012 and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, in August 2012, where she scored a triumph ).

In a scene in JSA # 1 ( August, 1999 ) that depicted the funeral of the first Sandman, Wildcat wonders whether his own funeral will " be like the time they buried Madame Fatal here, and no one turned up for the funeral but the touring cast of La Cage aux Folles?

Nobile Maria Letizia Buonaparte née Ramolino ( Marie-Lætitia Ramolino, Madame Mère de l ' Empereur ) ( 24 August 1750 – 2 February 1836 ) was the mother of Napoleon I of France.

* June 16 – Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan ; she built the Paris Palais Bourbon where she died ( b. 1673 )

" On January 16, 1929, the first European feature film with a synchronized vocal performance and recorded score premiered: the German production Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame ( I Kiss Your Hand, Madame ).

At the age of 16, on leaving her convent school, she became governess in the home of her mother's legitimate daughter, Madame de Vichy, who had married the brother of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll ( July 24, 1889-September 16, 1971 ) was, known as Miss Aggie or Madame X, an American

Anna Maria Tussaud ( née Grosholtz ; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850 ) was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.

He married Marie Adélaïde ( sometimes Adélaïde Marie ) de Montholon ( Mâcon, 11 or 16 October 1767-1848 ), Lady of Madame Victoire of France, daughter of Louis XV, on 16 April 1782 at Paris, France, with whom he had two daughters.

Albert Gleizes, 1914, Woman with animals, La dame aux bêtes ( Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon ), oil on canvas, 77 5 / 16 x 45 15 / 16 inches ( 196. 4 x 114. 1 cm ).

45, dedicated to Madame Bonaparte, Daniel Propper, piano ( Echoes of the Battlefields, Forgotten Records, fr 16 / 17P, 2012 )

The eldest of 11 children, she became an apprentice milliner at Madame Félix in Paris at the age of 16 and trained at dressmaker Talbot before becoming a milliner on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1889.

Measuring 16 km long and 11 km wide, giving approximately 45 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, Isle Madame is jurisdictionally part of Richmond County and is separated from Cape Breton Island by a narrow strait named Lennox Passage.

On 16 May 1770, Madame Victoire's nephew, Louis-Auguste, the Dauphin of France, married the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria.

This included many of the newspapers of her day: for example, in the Hallowell ( Maine ) Gazette, 8 February 1815, p. 4, it refers to how the congress had allowed " Madame Dolly Madison " an allowance of $ 14, 000 to purchase new furniture ; and the New Bedford ( MA ) of 3 March 1837, p. 2 referred to a number of important papers from her late husband, and said that " Mrs. Dolly Madison " would be paid by the Senate for these historical manuscripts.

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.

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

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Portrait of Madame de Verninac, ( 1798 – 1799 ), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Madame Récamier painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800. jpg | Madame Récamier ( 1800 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

The fifth finger may also have been used on earlier, more lightly strung modern harps: Madame de Genlis, for example, in her Méthode, published in Paris in the early nineteenth century, promotes the use of all five fingers, while Roslyn Rensch suggests that Mlle de Guînes, the harpist for whom Mozart wrote his Concerto for Flute and Harp, might occasionally have used all five fingers when playing the harp.

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.

Victor died in Paris in 1828 in the home of Madame Guérin.

Madame de Pompadour, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Louvre Museum, Paris

In July 1808 he left Paris and spent the autumn and winter in Switzerland as the guest of Madame de Staël at Coppet, in the midst of her circle of wits.

Lucy, under the name of Madame Taylor, enters a mental institution located somewhere in Belgium along the route between Brussels and Paris.

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.

The 17th century promenade " la Motte à Madame ", and a monumental stairway overlooking the rue de Paris entrance to the Thabor.

Sand was born in Paris but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her grandmother's estate, Nohant, in the French province of Berry ( See House of George Sand ).

On 5 May 1778, Dr. Lassonne, Marie Antoinette's private physician, confirmed her pregnancy .< ref > Castelot, André, Madame Royale, Librairie Académique Perrin, Paris, 1962, p. 15, ISBN, ( French ).</ ref > On 19 December 1778, the Queen gave birth to a daughter, who was named Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, and given the honorific title Madame Royale.

* Ne Réveillez pas Madame, Paris, Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 21 October 1970.

* Ne Réveillez pas Madame ( Paris: La Table Ronde, 1970 ).

The last abbess, Madame d ' Antin, died in poverty in Paris.

* Bellevue Palace ( France ), a small château built for Madame de Pompadour near Paris in 1750 overlooking the Seine and demolished in 1823

ZnS: Cu was the first formulation successfully displaying electroluminescence, tested at 1936 by Georges Destriau in Madame Marie Curie laboratories in Paris.

The Boudoir of Madame de Sévilly was designed in 1781-2 in Paris, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, with exquisitely painted panelling by Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere.

Sargent enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, though not without controversy and some critical reservation ; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his " Portrait of Madame X ", was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but it resulted in scandal instead.