* H Noel Williams: Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV

See Mme Lenormant's Madame Récamier, les amis de sa jeunesse et sa correspondance intime ( 1872 ); Mme Mohl, Madame Récamier, with a sketch of the history of society in France ( 1821 and 1862 ); also François Guizot in the Revue des deux mondes for December 1859 and February 1873 ; H Noel Williams, Madame Récamier, and her Friends ( London, 1901 ); E Herriott ( Engl.

He is credited with stealing plans for submarines and planes, intercepting Nazi-Japanese correspondence, and recruiting many agents, including Madame Lupescu and Noel Field.

She made her stage debut at the age of seventeen playing the 45-65 year-old Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.

* Noel MacNeal as Madame Chairbird

`` Madame '', I said with noblesse oblige because of the `` handsome '' -- `` yeah ''.

:" I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself.

Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Napoleon III, and the House of Stuart were, among others, royal and upper class fans of ice skating.

Instead of introducing himself by saying, " Madame, I am Petruchio Pandolfo ", he stammered, " Madame, I am Pondolfio Pet — Pedolfio Pat — Pantuchio Ped — dammit!

In his letter to Madame de Francueil in 1751, he first pretended that he wasn't rich enough to raise his children but in book IX of the confessions, he gave the true reasons of his choice: " I trembled at the thought of intrusting them to a family ill brought up, to be still worse educated.

In the account books of Johanna, Duchess of Brabant and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxemburg, an entry dated May 14, 1379 reads: " Given to Monsieur and Madame four peters, two forms, value eight and a half moutons, wherewith to buy a pack of cards ".

* 1915: Mères Françaises ( Mothers of France ), as Madame Jeanne D ' Urbex, a war widow in World War I.

It includes: Henrietta Maria of France ( died 1669 ), exiled Queen of England ; Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, founder of the House of Orléans ; his first wife Henrietta Anne Stuart | Princess Henriette ( died 1670 ); the couples first daughter Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ) | Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( later Queen of Spain ); Anne of Austria ( died 1666 ); the Orléans daughters of Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Gaston de France ; Louis XIV ; the Dauphin of France with his wife Maria Theresa of Spain with her third daughter Princess Marie-Thérèse of France ( 1667 – 1672 ) | Marie-Thérèse de France, called Madame Royale ( died 1672 ) and her second son Philippe-Charles de France, duc d ' Anjou ( d1671 ).

In secret marriage, Louis XIV wed his second wife, Madame de Maintenon, in 1683 ; Louis the Grand Dauphin wed Marie Émilie de Joly de Choin in 1695 ; Anne Marie d ' Orléans ( La Grande Mademoiselle ) wed Antoine, Duke of Lauzun in 1682 ; and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans wed the Marquise de Montesson in 1773.

During this time, Diệm's sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, a Catholic convert and former Buddhist, the de facto first lady because of Diệm ’ s unmarried status, inflamed the situation by mockingly applauding the suicides, referring to them as “ barbecues ”, stating, “ If the Buddhists want to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline .” The pagoda raids stoked widespread public disquiet in Saigon.

She won more acclaim for her portrayal of a weary madam in Madame Rosa ( 1977 ) and as an unmarried sister who unknowingly falls in love with her paralyzed brother via anonymous correspondence in I Sent a Letter to my Love ( 1980 ).

" 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 ).

During this time, his wife Madame Nhu, herself a Catholic convert from Buddhism and the de facto first lady ( due to Diệm's bachelor life ), inflamed the situation by mockingly applauding the suicides of Thích Quảng Đức and others, referring to them as " barbecues ", while Nhu stated " if the Buddhists want to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline ".

His most controversial work, Portrait of Madame X ( Madame Pierre Gautreau ) ( 1884 ) is now considered one of his best works, and was the artist's personal favorite ; he stated in 1915, " I suppose it is the best thing I have done.

In Thank You, Mr. Moto he tells the disillusioned Madame Tchernov, " I am so grateful for your suspicious nature.

* " I Kiss Your Hand, Madame " w. ( Eng ) Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young ( Ger ) Fritz Rotter m. Ralph Erwin

The title Princess Royal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria ( 1609 – 1669 ), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charles I ( 1600 – 1649 ), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of France was styled " Madame Royale ".

Van Morrison told Ritchie Yorke, one of his biographers, he wrote both of the songs " Madame George " and " Cyprus Avenue " in stream of consciousness: " George ' just came right out ... The song is just a stream of consciousness thing, as is ' Cyprus Avenue '... I didn't even think about what I was writing.

D ' Artagnan and Planchet go there, where they are set upon by a group who think them Frondeurs while outside the house of Madame de Longueville.

Indeed, Kerr's most famous line on the show might have been his response to someone's criticism of his cooking: " Madame, you could go outside and get run over by a bus and just think what you would have missed!

The reaction to the birth of an heir was best summed up by the words of Louis XVI himself, as he wrote them down in his hunting journal: " Madame, you have fulfilled our wishes and those of France, you are the mother of Dauphin ".

Louis XV was astounded and his heart thawed, saying, " Madame, I am delighted that the first favour you should ask of me should be an act of mercy!

Madame I know well that you are a real she-devil, but I hereby give you notice, me, that I am Beelzebub, the Chief of Devils.

" " Monsieur Roederer ," said Madame Elizabeth, addressing the recorder, " you answer for the life of the king?

I just come over and say: ' Madame, would you like to fuck?

He once wrote to her: " je fais pour mon Eve toute les folies qu ' un Hulot fait pour une Marneffe, je te donnerai mon sang, mon honneur, ma vie " (" I commit for all the follies that a Hulot commits for Madame Marneffe ; I give you my blood, my honor, my life ").

Her deep sadness in the last months of her life reveals itself in the following excerpt from a letter to her friend, Madame Niaudet: " It means nothing to get old, if you are always surrounded by your loved ones.

He cites the ever present interest in Yeats by Morrison, and the words in the song: " That's when you fall into a trance / Sitting on a sofa playing games of chance / With your folded arms in history books you glance / Into the eyes of Madame George.

* Madame Armfeldt: Desiree's mother, who has had " liaisons " with royalty.

Louis XVI had already been guillotined before the start of the terror ; Queen Marie Antoinette, Barnave, Bailly, Brissot and other leading Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( despite his vote for the death of the King ), Madame Roland and many others were executed by guillotine.

He then informed her, that when he thought Monsieur and Madame La Motte were asleep, he had stolen to her chamber door ... that he had called several times as loudly as he dared, but receiving no answer, he believed she was asleep ...

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.

The guillotine became the symbol of a string of executions: Louis XVI had already been guillotined before the start of the terror ; Marie-Antoinette, the Girondists, Philippe Égalité, Madame Roland and many others lost their lives under its blade.

After giving me a play-by-play account of what had happened between him and Madame, he concluded that he had invited Madame to return to Washington with us.

" But the next day, Willkie had Cowles tell Madame she could not travel to Washington with him after all.

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.

When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York.

Many travellers had themselves painted in exotic Eastern dress on their return, including Lord Byron, as did many who had never left Europe, including Madame de Pompadour.

His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: " Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it.

Her relationship with the comtesse du Barry was one which was important to rectify, at least on the surface, because Madame du Barry was the mistress of Louis XV, and thus had considerable political influence over the king.

Although the Petit Trianon had been built for Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, it became associated with Marie Antoinette's perceived extravagance.

The memoirs of the queen's lady-in-waiting, Madame Campan, state explicitly that the miscarriage came about after the queen exerted herself too strenuously in closing a window in her carriage, felt that she had hurt herself, and lost the child eight days later.

Marie Antoinette earned the nickname of " Madame Déficit " in the summer of 1787 as a result of the public perception that she had singlehandedly ruined the finances of the nation.

Lambert's will provided 30 million francs ( approximatively 5 million euros ) to Le Pen, as well as his castle in Montretout, Saint-Cloud ( the same castle had been owned by Madame de Pompadour until 1748 ).

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.

The public had generally accepted the mistresses of Louis XIV, who, apart from Madame de Maintenon, were all chosen in the highest spheres of the aristocracy and had very little influence on the government.