* Princess Rosette, a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d ' Aulnoy

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.

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.

Her most famous novel was Madame de ..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica.

Damon Runyon's short story Madame La Gimp was published in the October 1929 issue of Cosmopolitan.

English readers were familiar with Mother Hubbard, already a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published his satire " Mother Hubbard's tale ", 1590 ; with the superstitious advice on getting a husband or a wife of " Mother Bunch ", who was credited with the fairy stories of Madame d ' Aulnoy when they first appeared in English.

** Joseph Balsamo ( Mémoires d ' un médecin: Joseph Balsamo, 1846 – 1848 ) ( a. k. a. Memoirs of a Physician, Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life )( Joseph Balsamo is about 1000 pages long, and is usually published in two volumes in English translations: Vol 1.

The Poitiers work was the celebrated collection of poems on flea ( La Puce de Madame Des Roches, published 1583 ; see Catherine Des Roches ).

The of Madame du Deffand with D ' Alembert, Hénault, Montesquieu, and others was published in Paris ( 2 vols.

He published a translation of A Heinrich Ritter's Geschichte der Philosophie ( 1861 ); La Philosophie individualiste: étude sur Guillaume de Humboldt ( 1864 ); and an edition of the works of Madame d ' Epinay ( 1869 ).

Some articles which Fauriel published in the Decade philosophique ( 1800 ) on a work of Madame de Staël's -- De la littérature considerée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales -- led to an intimate friendship with her.

After his death his friend Mary Clarke ( afterwards Madame J. Möhl ) published his Histoire de la littérature provençale ( 3 vols., 1846 )-- his lectures for 1831-1832.

The speech was widely published in English and also across Europe in a French translation by Madame de Staël, who became a friend of Mackintosh's.

* Madame de la Fayette-La Princesse de Clèves ( published anonymously )

A second and revised edition was published after another visit to Germany in January 1834, in the course of which Hayward met Tieck, Chamisso, De La Motte Fouqué, Varnhagen von Ense and Madame Goethe.

Madame Chrysanthème, a novel of Japanese manners that is a precursor to Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon ( a combination of narrative and travelog ) was published the same year.

The chief authority for Madame de Longueville's life is a little book in two volumes by Villefore the Jansenist, published in 1738.

The sheet music of Bonnie Dundee was published by Boosey & Sons as " sung by Miss Dolby " and ( after 1860 ) " sung by Madame Sainton-Dolby ", but Boosey credits her only with performing the song and arranging the accompaniment ; no composer is named, and Boosey lists the piece as a Scotch Air.

) 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 ).

Her most famous novel was Madame de ..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica.

His Œuvres complètes were published by his executrix, Madame de Turpin, in 1781.

Les Lettres Portugaises ), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues ( 1628 – 1685 ), a minor peer, diplomat, secretary to the Prince of Conti, and friend of Madame de Sévigné, the poet Boileau, and the dramatist Jean Racine.

In 2005, she guest starred as Charlie Harper's neighbor Norma in an episode (# 3. 9 " Madame and Her Special Friend ") of Two and a Half Men.

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

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.

Alain Decaux wrote: " Madame de Rambaud was officially in charge of the care of the Dauphin from the day of his birth until 10 August 1792, in other words, for seven years.

* August 17-Anne Dacier ( Madame Dacier ) ( born c. 1654 )

* August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer ( d. 1882 )

Trần Lệ Xuân ( 22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011 ), popularly known as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.

The United States in a position of some leverage owing to the considerable US aid flowing into South Vietnam, gave President Diem an ultimatum in August 1963 to distance himself from both his brother and Madame Nhu.

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier ( 1654 – 17 August 1720 ), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar and translator of the classics.

From August 27 to November 21, 1951, Wong starred in a detective series that was written specifically for her, the DuMont Television Network series The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, in which she played the title role which used her birth name.

From January 8 until August 24, 2008, she played the role of Madame Morrible in the Los Angeles production of Wicked.

However, things must have been ironed out, because August of the following year found the " far-famed unambulist performing his arduous and daring exploits " at the gardens, followed by " Madame Veroni's magic exploits ".

Upon discovering Pauline's deceit, he rebuked her with, " Please understand, Madame, that there is no princess snub to Pauline's newly assumed princely status through her August marriage where I am.

Rose Perrine le Roy de la Corbinaye ( December 10, 1730 – August 5, 1799 ) was a French actress, best known under the name of Madame Bellecour.

In August 1979 Son Sann went to Thailand with his sons ( Son Soubert and Son Monir ), Neang Chin Han ( former Director of the Executive Cabinet under President Lon Nol ), Madame Suon Kaset Sokhomaly, Colonel Thou Thip, Colonel Ea Chuor Kim Meng, Suon Sophat and Buon Say, all from France.

Her recent performances include roles of La Cieca in La Gioconda, Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda, the title role in Rossini's Tancredi, the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Isabella in Rossini's L ' italiana in Algeri, Erda in Wagner's Ring Cycle ( at the Seattle Opera ), Klytämnestra in Richard Strauss's Elektra ( with the Canadian Opera Company ), Madame de la Haltière in Massenet's Cendrillon ( at London's Royal Opera House ), and the title role in Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia ( in the work's US premiere at the Caramoor International Music Festival in July 2012 and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, in August 2012, where she scored a triumph ).

In a scene in JSA # 1 ( August, 1999 ) that depicted the funeral of the first Sandman, Wildcat wonders whether his own funeral will " be like the time they buried Madame Fatal here, and no one turned up for the funeral but the touring cast of La Cage aux Folles?

Nobile Maria Letizia Buonaparte née Ramolino ( Marie-Lætitia Ramolino, Madame Mère de l ' Empereur ) ( 24 August 1750 – 2 February 1836 ) was the mother of Napoleon I of France.

Madame Céleste or Madame Céline Céleste ( August 16, 1815, Paris – February 12, 1882, Paris ) was a French dancer and actress.