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Madame and Chiang
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.

Madame and appears
' Her face, with its glamour-gorgon makeup, softens, as Madame Armfeldt seems to melt into memory itself, and the wan stage light briefly appears to borrow radiance from her.
Madame Leota, a medium whose disembodied head appears within a crystal ball, summons the mansion's spirits while levitating above her table.
However, in Thief of Time, though still resentful of having been born Death's granddaughter and attempting to avoid too much contact with the supernatural world, she appears to have accepted and even embraced her heritage: she admits, albeit grudgingly, that she is not completely human, frequently uses her powers to provide teaching aids, and views herself as an exception to the rules of normal human society, as evidenced by her willingness to investigate the personal papers of her employer, Madame Frout, without her knowledge.
She appears to be a native French speaker ( hence, " Madame " Medusa ).
Charcot appears, along with Maria Skłodowska-Curie ( Madame Curie ) and Charcot's patient " Blanche " ( Marie Wittman ), in Per Olov Enquist's 2004 novel The Book about Blanche and Marie ( English translation, 2006, ISBN 1-58567-668-3 ).
But the connection between the king and Madame de Verneuil appears to have been very displeasing to Charles, and in 1601 he engaged in the conspiracy formed by the Dukes of Savoy, Biron and Monsieur de Turenne, one of the objects of which was to force Henry to repudiate his wife and marry the marchioness.
Later Madame Web appears in her room in the middle of the night asking Anya to be Spider-Girl.
Tong appears seconds before Madame Wah and Chow Heung ( who was protecting the injured Madame Wah ) would be killed by the Evil Scholar.
Once Robin is slowed down, Hot Spot and Madame Rouge fight until buildings collapse, and Hot Spot appears from the rubble.
Boucher's patroness was Madame de Pompadour, who appears as a major character in the Tenth Doctor story " The Girl in the Fireplace ".
Madame George appears in the " Black Boys on Mopeds " lyrics of Sinéad O ' Connor: " England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses " suggesting that she is a legendary figure.
Madame Nhu is a psychic of sorts who appears on stage mysteriously in her palanquin.
Occasional literary references point to the novel and, naturally the classics and we know of family visits especially with Madame Pisani ( of whom he appears to have been extraordinarily fond ) " to view the paintings " He was, presumably, culturally no different to any other highly educated European gentleman. Invitations are to be found among the papers in the Royal Irish Academy-to M. Gounod's " Sappho ", first performed in Paris in 1851, Verdi's " Rigoletto " Il Trovatore ", " La Traviata and Les Vespres Siciliennes ", Schumann's " Manfred "; Donizetti's " Lucia di Lammermoor " and Berlioz ' " The Infant Christ ". Such advanced musical tastes and opportunities usually come early in life and by were presumably instilled in Hortense and Henry by the Pisani's rather than by Haliday's provincial and decidedly dour family. It is worth noting, but no more, that Giacomo Puccini, the Italian opera composer, was born in Lucca, Haliday's other home town in 1859.
A particularly suspicious miniature French poodle named Madame Mousey, who has started living among the mice about this time, appears at every crime scene, claiming to be a fortune teller.
When all the cats seem to be under control, the " dog council " appears just as they're regaining consciousness and chase them all away, taking Madame Mousey with them.
Madame Woe appears as the third boss in the Sega Genesis adaption to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
He wears a green robe, carries a magic cane, and appears in most of the Puzzle Bobble titles, generally revealing himself to be the main antagonist after the defeat of his disguise, in this case, he disguises himself as Madame Luna.

Madame and minor
On the heels of its belated hit single, Styx signed with A & M Records and released Equinox ( 1975 ), which sold well and yielded a minor hit in " Lorelei ", No. 27 in the U. S. More importantly, it contained the rock anthem " Suite Madame Blue ", which gained the band considerable recognition and airplay on FM radio in the relatively new Album Oriented Rock ( AOR ) format.
1: Grand Hall ; 2: White Drawing Room ; 3: Dining Room ; 4: Library ; 5: Amber | Amber Room ; 6: Vitreous enamel | limoges Room ; 7: Imperial staircase ; 8: Study ; 9: Vestibule ; 10: Green drawing Room ; 11: South Enrance Hall ; 12: Blarenberghe | Blarenberghe Room ; 13: Madame du Barry | du Barry Room ; 14: Billiards Room ; 15: Smoking Room / Armoury ; 33: Italian garden ; 34: Servants ' courtyard ; 35: Cour d ' honneur ; 36: South Terrace ; ST: minor service staircases.
Les Lettres Portugaises ), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues ( 1628 – 1685 ), a minor peer, diplomat, secretary to the Prince of Conti, and friend of Madame de Sévigné, the poet Boileau, and the dramatist Jean Racine.
Although Madame Blavatsky makes liberal use of the term adept in her works to refer to their minor function as caretaker of ancient occult knowledge.
The opus 2 sonatas, however, were published in at least 3 editions in the 1790s by the Corri-Dussek company in London as by Madame Dussek, and there is no reason to doubt that the 6 sonatas of opus 2, including the famous C minor sonata published and misattributed by Schott as by JL, are anything but the work of Sophia.

Madame and character
She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2009.
* Madame Razz, a fictional character in the television series She-Ra: Princess of Power
* Madame Medusa, a character in The Rescuers
Hofstadter gives one example of translation trouble in the paragraph " Mr. Tortoise, Meet Madame Tortue ", saying translators " instantly ran headlong into the conflict between the feminine gender of the French noun tortue and the masculinity of my character, the Tortoise ".
Hofstadter decided to translate the French character as " Madame Tortue ", and the Italian version as " Signorina Tartaruga ".
In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis in a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.
The character of Louis XV has appeared in many French Revolution-era films, especially films about the lives of Marie Antoinette and Madame du Barry.
( Cassard had previously wooed the title character in Lola, only to be rejected once the father of her child returned — he relates an edited version of this story to Madame Emery with ill-concealed bitterness ).
In 2000, she played the title character in Madame Melville opposite Macaulay Culkin in London's West End, which was crucial to her further development as an actress.
In 2009, she played the title character in Madame De Sade during the Donmar's West End season.
He was one of the last of the philosophes, and in this character he figures in many memoirs, such as those of Madame de Rémusat.
Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).
According to Magdi Wahba, a third important reason for Madame de Genlis ' popularity in Britain was a " misapprehension " regarding her character.
Reisz is very much a foil to Madame Ratignolle's character ; she has no family and happily lives alone, not caring what society thinks of her.
In The New 52, Vandal Savage is a supporting character in Demon Knights, a story based on Arthurian Lore, co-starring with characters like Etrigan, Madame Xanadu, and Shining Knight.
The character of Madame Lynx was based on Madame Egelichi, the femme fatale spy played by Ilona Massey in the 1949 Marx Brothers movie Love Happy.
In Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses of 1782, the character identified as Madame la Présidente de Tourvel (" Madam President of Tourvel ") is the wife of a magistrate in a parlement.
Like the eventual portrait, an oil sketch entitled Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast ( Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ), shows the subject's profile and bare arms against a dark background, but is of a more freely brushed and informal character.
The character Madame Morrible has a tiktok servant, called Grommetik, whose description matches Baum's Tik-Tok ; however, this character's speech key is never wound.
:* Emma Bovary, a patient with food poisoning, refers to the character of the same name in Gustave Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary.
Although Hamton's non-aggressive personality bears similarities to Porky's, Hamton also bears similarities to " Piggy Hamhock ", a Friz Freleng-created character featured in the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies shorts Pigs Is Pigs ( 1937 ) and At Your Service Madame ( 1936 ).
Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th century European society, adultery, provincial life ( thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's Madame Bovary ) and the planning of murder by a woman, hence the title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth.
There are seven party members in total: Goombella the Goomba, Koops the Koopa, Madame Flurrie the spirit, a Yoshi ( named by the player ), Vivian the Shadow Siren, Admiral Bobbery the Bob-omb, and Ms. Mowz, who is available as an optional character.

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