* Madame du Coudray publishes Abrégé de l ' art des accouchements (" The Art of Obstetrics ") and the French government authorizes her to carry her instruction " throughout the realm " and promises financial support.

Louis Stanislas found comfort in his governess, Madame de Marsan, Governess of the Children of France, ( Gouvernante des Enfants de France ), as he was her favourite among his siblings.

* Ne Réveillez pas Madame, Paris, Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 21 October 1970.

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.

Bussy was ordered to retire to his estates at Château de Bussy-Rabutin, and beguiled his enforced leisure by composing his famous Histoire amoureuse des Gaules ( written in 1660 ) for the amusement of his sick mistress, Madame de Montglas.

x. of the ; a paper on Jordan and Madame de Staël, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, in the Revue des deux mondes for March 1868 and R Boubbe, " Camille Jordan à Weimar ," in the Correspondance ( 1901 ), ccv.

Friedrich Schlegel's wife, Dorothea von Schlegel, a daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, was the author of an unfinished romance, Florentin ( 180 ,), a Sammlung romantischer Dichtungen des Mittelalters ( Collection of Romantic Poems of the Middle Ages ) ( 2 vols., 1804 ), a version of Lother und Maller ( 1805 ), and a translation of Madame de Staël's Corinne ( 1807 – 1808 )-all of which were issued under her husband's name.

; J Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopaedists ( London, 1878 ); DG Mostratos, Die Pädagogik des Helvétius ( Berlin, 1891 ); A Guillois, Le Salon de Madame Helvétius ( 1894 ); A Piazzi, Le idee filosofiche specialmente pedagogiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Milan, 1889 ); Georgi Plekhanov, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus ( Stuttgart, 1896 ); L Limentani, Le teorie psicologiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Verona, 1902 ); A Keim, Helvétius, sa vie et son œuvre ( 1907 ); Isaiah Berlin, " Helvétius " in Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Liberty, ed.

Meanwhile, he began to compile his great Histoire des républiques italiennes du Moyen Âge, and was introduced to Madame de Staël.

The Précieuses, who are usually associated with Molière's avowed caricatures and with the extravagances of Mlle de Scudéry, but a name Madame de Sévigné herself was proud to bear, insisted on a ceremonious gallantry from their suitors and friends, though it seems from the account given by Tallemant des Réaux that mild practical jokes took place at the Hôtel de Rambouillet.

The chief original authorities respecting Madame de Rambouillet and her set are Tallemant des Réaux in his Historiettes, and Antoine Baudeau de Somaize in his Grand Dictionnaire des Précieuses ( 1660 ).

It had been presented in an abridged form at the house of Offenbach, 8 Boulevard des Capucines, on 18 May 1879, with Madame Franck-Duvernoy in the soprano roles, Auguez as Hoffmann ( baritone ) and Émile-Alexandre Taskin in the four villain roles, with Edmond Duvernoy at the piano and a chorus directed by Albert Vizentini.

Madame des Ursins wisely held that the young king should rely as much as possible on his Spanish subjects.

Madame des Ursins confesses in her voluminous correspondence that she made herself a burden to the king in her anxiety to exclude him from all other influence.

Madame des Ursins was persuaded by Alberoni to arrange a marriage with Elisabeth of Parma, hoping to govern the new queen as she had done the old.

Madame des Ursins, who had gone to meet the new queen at Quadraque near the frontier, was driven from her presence with insult, and sent out of Spain without being allowed to change her court dress, in such bitter weather that the coachman lost his hand by frostbite.

Madame des Ursins has the credit of having begun to check the overgrown power of the church and the Inquisition in Spain, and of having attempted to bring the finances to order.

) A readable life of Madame des Ursins was published in Paris in 1858 by NF Combes, and there is an English life by C Hill, The Princess des Ursins in Spain ( London, 1899 ).

Madame des Ursins also is credited as having introduced the essence of bitter orange tree as a fashionable fragrance by using it to perfume her gloves and her bath.

* de Saint Amand, Imbert, Madame de Girardin Gay, avec des lettres inédites de Lamarine, Châteaubrieand, Mlle Rachel ”.

In 1859, Souvenirs et correspondances tirés des papiers de Madame Récamier was edited by Madame Lenormant.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

It was to originally star Kristin Scott-Thomas ( Désirée ) and Leslie Caron ( Madame Armfeldt ).

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

He was the father of Thérésa Cabarrus, later known as Madame Tallien ( 1773 – 1835 ), a French social figure during the French Revolution who later became the Princess of Chimay.

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

She argued that these terms denigrated the proper and natural function of sexuality, and that such language was inappropriate for female characters such as Madame Raison.

Madame Roland ( aka Manon or Marie Roland ) was another important female activist.

As she was led to the scaffold, Madame Roland shouted " O liberty!

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 ...

La Voix humaine was written, in effect, as an extravagant aria for Madame Berthe Bovy.

Sophie was the cousin and houseguest of Rousseau's patroness and landlady Madame d ' Epinay, whom he treated rather highhandedly.

At the request of Madame d ' Epinay, who was anxious to protect her privacy, however, the police ordered him to stop, and the Confessions was only partially published in 1782, four years after his death.

The term New Age was used in this context in Madame Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888.

In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.

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.

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.

At the Itard home, housekeeper Madame Guérin was setting the table one evening while crying over the loss of her husband.

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.

The benefactor was aware of the political or social favors expected by the courtesan, the courtesan was aware of the price expected from them for those favors being carried out, and the two met one another's demands, an example being Madame de Pompadour.