During and after World War II, Chiang and his American-educated wife Soong May-ling, known in the United States as " Madame Chiang ", held the support of the United States ' China Lobby, which saw in them the hope of a Christian and democratic China.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady.

* Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China ( London, Weidenfeld, 2009 ).

Main characters in the opera are: the Nixons, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Chiang Ch ' ing ( Madame Mao ) and Henry Kissinger.

Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang (; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003 ) was a First Lady of the Republic of China ( ROC ), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference, 25 November 1943

Madame Chiang initiated the New Life Movement and became actively engaged in Chinese politics.

As her husband rose to become Generalissimo and leader of the Kuomintang, Madame Chiang acted as his English translator, secretary and advisor.

During World War II, Madame Chiang tried to promote the Chinese cause and build a legacy for her husband on par with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.

During his visit to China, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Willkie took an interest in each other.

After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.

Madame Chiang continued to play a prominent international role.

After the death of her husband in 1975, Madame Chiang assumed a low profile.

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.

Madame Chiang returned to Taiwan upon Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988, to shore up support among her old allies.

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.

He also gained the freedom of Madame Adrienne Lafayette and issued her and her family American passports ( they had been granted citizenship by the US government for contributions during the Revolution.

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.

Richardson also appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in the Julia Stiles vehicle The Prince and Me and as the ballet mistress Madame Giry in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom Of The Opera ( 2004 ).

His wife, reckoned one of the most beautiful women of the day, became an accomplished salon hostess as Madame de Condorcet, and also an accomplished translator of Thomas Paine and Adam Smith.

He also painted several portraits of his illustrious patroness, Madame de Pompadour.

Described at her birth as " a small, but completely healthy Archduchess ", she was also known at the Austrian court as Antonia, but more often as Madame Antoine, since French was commonly spoken in the Hofburg.

Madame Chen was also from a scholarly family and received a traditional literary education.

In 1775, he visited Lyon and also his spinster aunts, Madame Adélaïde and Madame Victoire, while they were taking the waters at Vichy.

) She was also nominated for Madame Curie ( 1943 ), Mrs. Parkington ( 1944 ), and The Valley of Decision ( 1945 ).

She taught ' Workshop in the Novel ' at New York University in 1943 and 1944, and also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, contributing to the Madame Curie biopic and the John Ford and John Wayne war movie, They Were Expendable.

Other notable films included Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Love Letters ( 1945 ), Cluny Brown ( 1946 ), Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), Madame Bovary ( 1949 ), We Were Strangers ( 1949 ), Gone to Earth ( 1950 ), Carrie ( 1952 ), Ruby Gentry ( also 1952 ), Indiscretion of an American Wife ( 1953 ), Beat the Devil ( 1953 ), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ( 1955 ), Good Morning Miss Dove ( also 1955 ), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ( 1956 ) starring opposite Gregory Peck and A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ).

This puzzles Villefort, who knew that the infant's box had been removed and so the Count's story could not be true, and also alarms him that perhaps he knows the secret of his past affair with Madame Danglars and may be taunting him.

Samuel Bernard, who was very rich, was also the father of Madame Dupin, whose grace and intelligence are underlined in her portrait by Nattier.

* Élisabeth de France ( Elisabeth Philippine Marie Helene ), sister of Louis XVI of France, also known as Madame Elisabeth

Plotlines also frequently involved the elegant but unseen Madame Pontaven ( who Doc repeatedly attempted to impress and invite to dinner with no success ).

Apart from leads in several French films such as Max Ophüls ' The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953, again with Danielle Darrieux ) and Nana ( 1955, opposite Martine Carol ), he also moved into television as one of the pioneering producers and stars of Four Star Theatre ; Four Star Productions would make him and partners David Niven and Dick Powell rich.

During 1960, Herman also met playwright Tad Mosel and the two men collaborated on an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Mosel's 1953 television play, Madame Aphrodite.

* Eleanor Dumont, ( 1834-1879 ), also known as Madame Moustache, professional card dealer and gambler

On this trip, Charles was given a substantial amount of money with which to learn to gamble by his father, who also arranged for him to lose his virginity, aged fourteen, to a Madame de Quallens.

Guests stared with horror at Madame Lalaurie and made speedy departures.

Madame Chiang made a rare public appearance in 1995 when she attended a reception held on Capitol Hill in her honor in connection with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

* 1932: Madame Butterfly, a non-singing drama ( with ample portions of Puccini's score in the musical underscoring ) made by Paramount starring Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant in black & white.

The most famous was the French-Irish Marie-Louise O ' Murphy, who after two years as the king's young lover, made the fatal mistake of trying to unseat Madame de Pompadour and supplant her as favorite.

Although she made her film debut in 1936, it would be Rutherford's turn as Madame Arcati in David Lean's film of Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) that would actually establish her screen success.

Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film made by MGM.

He made nearly 30 films altogether, those from the last period being especially noted: La Ronde ( 1950 ), Le Plaisir ( 1952 ), The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ) and Lola Montès ( 1955 ).

The first version of the portrait of Madame Gautreau, with the famously plunging neckline, white-powdered skin, and arrogantly cocked head, featured an off-the-shoulder dress strap which made the overall effect more daring and sensual.

Korda made his final German film Madame Wants No Children ( 1926 ) for the American studio's Fox's Berlin-based subsidiary.

* Madame Bubble, a witch whose enchantments made the Enchanted Ground enchanted.

With the dauphin's governess, the Marquise de Tourzel taking on the role of a Russian baroness, the queen and the king's sister Madame Élisabeth playing her maids, the king her butler, and the royal children her daughters, the royal family made their escape.

This lady's wit made some of the guests, including D ' Alembert, prefer her society to that of Madame du Deffand, and Mademoiselle de Lespinasse received visitors for an hour before her patron appeared.

Although not himself a courtier, he was backed at court by Sosthene de la Rochefoucauld and Madame du Cayla, and in 1822 Louis XVIII gave him the title of count and made him formally prime minister.

Her 1962 novel, Madame Sousatzka, was made into a film in 1988, with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.

Female acts had made a stir in variety shows, and Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels ran with the idea, first performing in 1870 in skimpy costumes and tights.

Goodman states, " Madame Geoffrin made a daring step for a devout girl when, at the age of eighteen, but already a wife and mother, she began to frequent the afternoon gatherings at the home of Madame de Tencin.

It was more about simply reinforcing a social bond through gift-giving, as it was for the socialites who exchanged little gifts with each other, but instead made a financial relationship part of urbane sociability-especially when the rapport became more or less permanent in the form of allowances, such as the ones that Madame Geoffrin bestowed upon d ' Alembert, Thomas, and the abbé Morellet.

He had contrived to gain the favour of Madame de Pompadour, who had spoken about him to the king, for whom he had made a laboratory, in which the monarch — a martyr to boredom — tried to find a little pleasure or distraction, at all events, by making dyes.

His acquaintance with Madame Vestris led to him being engaged at the theatre, and he thus made his first appearance on the London stage in July in Tom and Jerry, in which he played six characters.

He travelled in Italy, sat under Schelling at Munich and under Ludwig Tieck at Dresden, became in 1835-36 a member of Madame de Circourt's salon, and numbered among his friends Alphonse de Lamartine, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Alfred de Vigny, Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, and Alexis de Tocqueville, of whose books, Démocratie en Amérique and the Ancien régime, he made standard translations into English.

He became very intimate with her, and after being regularly enrolled in the society of Coppet, he was invited or commanded — for Madame de Staël's invitations had something of command — to form one of the suite with which the future Corinne made the journey to Italy, which resulted in Corinne itself during the years 1804 – 1805.

They are addressed in the form of narrative to a lady who is not known, though guesses have been made at her identity, some even suggesting Madame de Sévigné herself.

The influence of Edmond de Pressensé, a pastor and large-minded theologian, and of Madame de Pressensé, a woman of superior intellect and refined feeling, who devoted her life to educational works and charity, made a great impression on him.