* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Portrait of Madame de Verninac, ( 1798 – 1799 ), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris

File: Madame Récamier painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800. jpg | Madame Récamier ( 1800 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.

* December 8 – Madame du Barry is executed.

** Madame du Barry, French courtesan ( executed ) ( b. 1743 )

* Madame du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery, retires.

* 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.

* Madame du Barry ( 1743 – 1793 )

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.

Some of his mistresses, such as Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry, are as well known as the king himself, and his affairs with three Mailly-Nesle sisters are documented by the formal agreements into which he entered.

The most famous of Louis's mistresses were the sisters of Mailly-Nesle ( four of the five sisters were king's mistresses, notably Louise-Julie, Comtesse de Mailly from 1738 to 1742 and Marie Anne, Duchesse de Châteauroux in 1743-44 ); Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour ( called Madame de Pompadour, the official mistress from 1745 to 1764 ); and Marie Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry ( official mistress from 1768 until the king's death in 1774 ).

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.

The most famous prisoners ( and victims ) included Queen Marie Antoinette, the poet André Chénier, Charlotte Corday, Madame Élisabeth, Madame du Barry and the Girondins, who were condemned by Georges Danton, who was in turn condemned by Robespierre, who was himself condemned and executed in a final bout of bloodletting.

Other important figures guillotined on the site, often in front of cheering crowds, were Queen Marie Antoinette, Princess Élisabeth of France, Charlotte Corday, Madame du Barry, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just and Olympe de Gouge.

* See Toulongeon, Eloge véridique de Guibert ( Paris, 1790 ); Madame de Stäel, Eloge de Guibert ; Bardin, Notice historique du général Guibert ( Paris.

Madame du Barry by Auguste de Creuse

A portrait of Madame du Barry by Francois-Hubert Drouais

Madame du Barry, by François-Hubert Drouais

Madame du Barry, by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, ( posthumous, between 1789 and 1805 ).

Campan recalls a pleasant anecdote: the king said to the duc de Noailles, that with Madame du Barry he had discovered new pleasures ; " Sire-answered the duke-that's because your Majesty has never been in a brothel.

Madame du Deffand felt that Helvétius had raised such a storm by saying openly what every one thought in secret.

Madame du Deffand is said by Horace Walpole ( in a letter to Thomas Gray ) to have been for a short time the mistress of the regent, the duke of Orléans.

When Hénault introduced D ' Alembert, Madame du Deffand was captivated by him.

This lady's wit made some of the guests, including D ' Alembert, prefer her society to that of Madame du Deffand, and Mademoiselle de Lespinasse received visitors for an hour before her patron appeared.

From this time Madame du Deffand very rarely received any literary men.

The correspondence between Walpole and Madame du Deffand thus remains one-sided, but seven of Walpole's letters to her are printed for the first time in the edition ( 1903 ) of his correspondence by Mrs Paget Toynbee, who discovered a quantity of her unedited letters.

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Another salonnière, the Marquise du Deffand, can be said to have competed against Madame Geoffrin for the friendship of many prominent men of letters.

Aldis writes, " There had always been a kind of tacit rivalry between Madame Geoffrin and the Marquise du Deffand ; the aristocratic Marquise sneered at her rival's low origin for the business and want of education, while Madame Geoffrin might well have ignored her taunts in the success of her salon, indisputably, the most celebrated in Paris and the civilized world.

At the age of 16, on leaving her convent school, she became governess in the home of her mother's legitimate daughter, Madame de Vichy, who had married the brother of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand.

Here Madame du Deffand made her acquaintance, and, recognizing her extraordinary gifts, persuaded her to come to Paris as her companion.

The relationship lasted ten years until 1764, when Madame du Deffand became jealous of the younger woman's increasing influence and a violent quarrel resulted.

See the of Grimm, of Madame de Deffand and of Voltaire ; the notice by Walckenaer in the edition of the Abrégé ; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol.

Nevertheless, as Madame du Deffand told Walpole, Saint-Lambert is froid, fade et faux and the same may be said of Jean-Antoine Roucher ( 1745 – 1794 ) who wrote Les Mois in 1779, a descriptive poem famous in its day.

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.

Guests stared with horror at Madame Lalaurie and made speedy departures.

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

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

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

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

The production temporarily closed on June 20, 2010 when the contracts of Zeta-Jones and Lansbury ended and resumed on July 13, with new stars Bernadette Peters as Desiree Armfeldt and Elaine Stritch as Madame Armfeldt.

Zarah Leander played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging ( in 1975 ) as well as in the original Swedish staging in Stockholm in 1978 ( here with Jan Malmsjö as Fredrik Egerman ), performing Send In The Clowns and Liaisons in both stagings.

That moment, halfway through the first act, belongs to Ms. Lansbury, who has hitherto been perfectly entertaining, playing Madame Armfeldt with the overripe aristocratic condescension of a Lady Bracknell.

' 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.

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.

Some elements are associated with fame, such as appearing on the cover of Time, being spoofed in Mad, having a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, or receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897.

Women who engage in female domination typically promote and title themselves under the terms " Dominatrix ", " Mistress ", " Lady ", " Madame "," Herrin " or " Goddess ", with the capitalization of these terms being a signifier to their identification in the dominant role.

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

But the images of Brando posing with his Triumph motorcycle became iconic, even forming the basis of his wax dummy at Madame Tussauds.

Madame Tussauds waxwork exhibit of Brando in The Wild One albeit with a later 1957 / 8 model Triumph Thunderbird.

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.

During this period, Steiner maintained an original approach, replacing Madame Blavatsky's terminology with his own, and basing his spiritual research and teachings upon the Western esoteric and philosophical tradition.

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.

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.