* 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 )

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

* May 4 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, wife of Philippe d ' Orléans, le Régent ( d. 1749 )

Henriette Louise de Bourbon, granddaughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, grew up here.

In 1692, Philippe married his first cousin, Françoise Marie de Bourbon-the youngest legitimised daughter ( légitimée de France ) of Philippe's uncle Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

Philippe's wife, the proud Françoise Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Madame de Montespan, by François de Troy.

Madame de Montespan, had not been invited to the wedding of her daughter.

King Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Montespan was one of the residents in the place.

The Duc de La Feuillade's son sold the château to Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Montespan who lived there for the rest of her life.

Louise Élisabeth's mother was Françoise Marie de Bourbon, daughter of Madame de Montespan.

* It was slipped into the food of Louis XIV to secure the king's lust for Madame de Montespan.

* Louise-Françoise de Bourbon ( 1673 – 1743 ) illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his most famous mistress Madame de Montespan.

Court gossip assigned some part of Montausier's favour to the complaisance of his wife, who, appointed lady-in-waiting to the queen in 1664, favoured Louis XIV's passion for Louise de la Vallière, and subsequently protected Madame de Montespan, who found refuge from her husband with her.

In 1685, his only surviving grandson, Louis de Bourbon, married Louise Françoise, Mademoiselle de Nantes-eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

* Madame de Maintenon, who became the last mistress of Louis XIV of France, gained entry to his inner circle as governess to his illegitimate offspring, the children of Madame de Montespan.

* 17th century: Catherine Monvoisin and the priest Etienne Guibourg performed " Black Masses " for Madame de Montespan, the mistress of King Louis XIV of France.

Louis Philippe is said to have rejected the idea of his son marrying Mademoiselle de Penthièvre due to her bastard race ; this is an irony in itself due to Louis Philippe and the Duke of Penthièvre were both descended from two daughters of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan ( 5 October 1641 – 27 May 1707 ), better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children.

Born into one of the oldest noble families of France, the House of Rochechouart, Madame de Montespan was called by some the true Queen of France during her romantic relationship with Louis XIV due to the pervasiveness of her influence at court during that time.

File: Marquise de Montespan and children. jpg | Madame de Montespan and four of her children: Mademoiselle de Nantes ; Count of Vexin ; Mademoiselle de Tours ; Duke of Maine

Through three of her children ( Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Françoise Marie de Bourbon and the comte de Toulouse ), Madame de Montespan became an ancestor of the modern House of Orléans and its present head, Henri d ' Orléans, Count of Paris and Duke of France.

She is in Madame Tussard's Waxworks in London, a princess of the Kiowa tribe and an honorary colonel in many states.

Madame Armfeldt is surprised, ruefully noting that she rejected love for material wealth at Fredrika's age.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

She is infamous for taking on false identities, like her father, among them Madame Ingomar and Queen Mamaloi.

** Madame LaMotte in The Romance of the Forest – naively assumes that her husband is having an affair with Adeline.

The acocryphal tale that the large pearl on Empress Dowager Cixi's crown ended up on Madame Chiang's gala shoes is described in Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor.

** The Madame Alexander Doll Club is founded by Margaret Doris Winson of Sweet Springs MO.

* January 25 – Chiang Ching (" Madame Mao ") is sentenced to death in the People's Republic of China.

* Louis XIV is married to Madame de Maintenon in a secret ceremony.

* December 8 – Madame du Barry is executed.

* The Petit Trianon, originally designed for Madame de Pompadour, is completed in the park of the Palace of Versailles and inaugurated by Louis XV of France.

* September 14 – Madame de Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV of France.

In its sequel, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Madame Solari is shown to be the leader of the courtesans in Rome.

In Book II chapter 28 of Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir, Julien and the woman he pretends to court, Madame de Fervaques, watch the opera Manon Lescaut while Julien is really thinking about his other lovers, Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de la Mole.

* July 17 – In France, Madame de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning her father and brothers.

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.

After the completion of The Source, Ingres produced paintings of historical genre, such as two versions of Louis XIV and Molière, ( 1857 and 1860 ), as well as several religious works in which the figure of the Virgin from The Vow of Louis XIII is reprised: The Virgin of the Adoption of 1858 ( painted for Mademoiselle Roland-Gosselin ) was followed by The Virgin Crowned ( painted for Madame la Baronne de Larinthie ) and The Virgin with Child.

In fact this quotation is more precisely attributed to Madame de Pompadour, although it is not certain that even she ever said it.

The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story Madame La Gimp by Damon Runyon.

She married Mao in Yan ' an in November 1938, and is sometimes referred to as Madame Mao in Western literature, serving as Communist China's first first lady.

* The eastern city of Formosa is the home of Madame Tang and her dragon in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow based on the Disney films

His wife's given name is Louise, but she is almost exclusively referred to as Madame Maigret in the books.