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* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )
* Madame de La Carlière, short story and moral fable, ( 1772 )
File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Portrait of Madame de Verninac, ( 1798 – 1799 ), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).
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.
Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Napoleon III, and the House of Stuart were, among others, royal and upper class fans of ice skating.
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.
From later periods, highlights include Madame de Pompadour's Sèvres vase collection and Napoleon III's apartments.
( 1992 ) de Sade's mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil obtained multiple lettres de cachet to ensure de Sade's continuous imprisonment in the Bastille and Charenton.
Later she would become a close friend with the devout Françoise d ' Aubigné, better known as Madame de Maintenon, the lady-in-waiting who would later become the second wife of Louis XIV.
Fielding eventually ran his own puppet theater under the pseudonym Madame de la Nash to avoid the censorship concomitant with the Theater Licensing Act of 1737.
* Stanislas, chevalier de Boufflers, Lettres d ' Afrique à Madame de Sabran, préface, notes et dossier de François Bessire, s. l., Babel, 1998, 453 pages ( coll.
The mid 17th century in France saw the development of a refined short novel, the " nouvelle ", by such authors as Madame de Lafayette.
One popular work from the género ínfimo years is La corte de Faraón ( 1910 ), by Vicente Lleó, which was based on the French operetta Madame Putiphar.
* 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 )
* April 15 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France ( b. 1721 )
* December 15 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan ( b. 1636 )

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His portrait busts of Buffon and of Madame du Barry ( 1773 ), and his statuette of Bossuet ( all in the Louvre ), are amongst his best works.

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Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe ( Offenbach s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d ' argent ), paired with two one-act English after-pieces ( Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury ).
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.
*( Thai ) " King Mongkut s letters to Anna: When Madame Teacher plays political negotiator " Art and Culture Magazine
At the insistence of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Charles and his family left France three days later, on 17 July, along with several other courtiers, including Madame de Polignac, the Queen s favourite.
The Battle of Fish Creek National Historic Site, the name has been changed to Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek National Historic Site to preserve the battlefield of April 24, 1885, at la coulée des Tourond, Madame Tourond s home, early Red River cart Fish Creek Trail and the site of Middleton s camp and graveyard.
* ‘ Madame Julia Correvon ( crimson )
Most notably Tailleferre wrote 18 short works in the Petit livre de harpe de Madame Tardieu for Caroline Tardieu, the Conservatory s Assistant Professor of Harp.
In 1879, the Bancrofts moved to the Haymarket Theatre, where they produced or starred in a revival of Money, and in Sardou's Odette ( for which they engaged Madame Helena Modjeska ) and Fedora, and Pinero s Lords and Commons, with revivals of previous successes.
Chiang s wife Soong May-ling ( Madame Chiang Kai-shek, ) was excluded from this commission although she desperately asked for a peace negotiation.
* Aulnoy, Marie, Madame D Aulnoy s Fairy Tales, 9 v., Gall and Inglis, 1871.
After the revolution, friends he had met at Madame Helvétius salon came to power.
# Amherst s Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson
One day, a deaf-mute named Paul runs through the woods wearing Mathilde s diving suit and frightens Madame de Blayac.
In John Singer Sargent s famous Portrait of Madame X, for example, the lumps only appear on the blackest areas, which may be because of the artist s use of more medium in those areas to compensate for the tendency of black pigments to soak it up.
** The crystal ball containing Madame Leota s head floats mysteriously above the table.
* Duyker, E. In Search of Madame Kerivel and Baudin s Last Resting Place, National Library of Australia News, vol.
The flower types include Single ( e. g., Athena, Dad, Krinkled White, Scarlet O Hara, Sea Shell ), Japanese ( Nippon Beauty, Madame Butterfly ), Anemone, Semi-Double ( Paula Fay, Coral Charm, Miss America, Buckeye Belle ), Double ( Ann Cousins, Gardenia, Kansas, Paul M. Wild, Tourangelle ) and Bomb-Double ( Red Charm, Raspberry Sundae, Mons Jules Elie ).
Although ready to bless their marriage, he changes his mind upon receiving the reply to a character-reference-letter he wrote to the abbé Chénal, Julien s previous employer in the village of Verrières ; however, the reply letter, written by Madame de Rênal — at the urging of her confessor priest — warns the Marquis that Julien Sorel is a social-climbing cad who preys upon emotionally vulnerable women.
On learning the Marquis s disapproval of the marriage, Julien Sorel travels to his home village of Verrières and shoots Madame de Rênal during Mass in the village church ; she survives.
Azmi starred in Hollywood productions such as John Schlesinger s Madame Sousatzka ( 1988 ) and Roland Joffe s City of Joy ( 1992 ).

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The List of academic ranks # Netherlands | Promovendus ( center ) is accompanied by two Paranymph s. Madame Bedel is on the left, holding the Staff of office | staff.
Madame Geoffrin ` s salon in 1755, by Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier.
She has appeared in a number of foreign films, most of which have won international acclaim, including John Schlesinger s Madame Sousatzka, Nicholas Klotz s Bengali Night, Roland Joffe s City of Joy, Channel 4 s Immaculate Conception, Blake Edwards ' Son of the Pink Panther, and Ismail Merchant s In Custody.

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