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* Mademoiselle de Maupin ( 1835 ) In September 1833, Gautier was solicited to write a historical romance based on the life of French opera star Mlle Maupin, who was a first-rate swordswoman and often went about disguised as a man.
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Mademoiselle Riego de la Blanchardiere is generally credited with the invention of Irish Crochet, publishing the first book of patterns in 1846.
His work influenced novelist Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, which provided the first description of a physical type that became associated with lesbians: tall, wide-shouldered, slim-hipped, and athletically inclined.
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.
His portraits of women range from the warmly sensuous Madame de Senonnes ( 1814 ) to the realistic Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin ( 1821 ), the Junoesque Marie-Clothilde-Inés de Foucauld, Madame Moitessier ( portrayed standing and seated, 1851 and 1856 ), and the chilly Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, Princesse de Broglie ( 1853 ).
In secret marriage, Louis XIV wed his second wife, Madame de Maintenon, in 1683 ; Louis the Grand Dauphin wed Marie Émilie de Joly de Choin in 1695 ; Anne Marie d ' Orléans ( La Grande Mademoiselle ) wed Antoine, Duke of Lauzun in 1682 ; and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans wed the Marquise de Montesson in 1773.
Mademoiselle Deluzy-Desportes once was governess to the four children of the Duc de Praslin ( Charles Boyer ) and his wife, the Duchesse de Praslin ( Barbara O ' Neil ) in the last years of the Orleans monarchy in Paris.
Constant wars with many of the major powers in Europe rendered a significant marriage with a foreign princess unlikely, or so Louis XIV told his brother, Monsieur, when persuading him to accept the king's legitimised daughter, Françoise Marie de Bourbon ( known as Mademoiselle de Blois ), as wife for Philippe.
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" For grace and style and insight into character ,” wrote Kathleen Tomlinson, " Cécile is reminiscent of Gautier ’ s Mademoiselle de Maupin.
His argument relied on a comparison with Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier, which had been cleared of obscenity in the 1922 case Halsey v. New York.
Returning to features in the late 1960s with Mademoiselle De Maupin, his later works included the accomplished period dramas Metello and Bubu ( both featuring Massimo Ranieri ), Fatti di gente per bene ( La Grande Bourgeoise ) starring Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey, L ' eredità Ferramonti ( The Inheritance ) with Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda, and La Dame aux camélias featuring a young Isabelle Huppert.
Julie d ' Aubigny ( 1670 – 1707 ), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a 17th-century swordswoman and opera singer.
Théophile Gautier loosely based the title character, Madeleine de Maupin, of his novel Mademoiselle de Maupin ( 1835 ) on her.
The fictional Mademoiselle de Maupin, from Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin by Aubrey Beardsley, 1898
Théophile Gautier, when asked to write a story about d ' Aubigny, instead produced the novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, published in 1835, taking aspects of the real La Maupin as a starting point, and naming some of the characters after her and her acquaintances.
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Some archival investigation on the original letters suggests that the woman of romantic interest was a Mademoiselle Stéphanie-Félicie Poterin du Motel, the daughter of the physician at the hostel where Galois stayed during the last months of his life.
Mademoiselle was shot noir-style on location in rural France with a static camera, monochrome film stock and no music.
He married Mademoiselle Houdin and, under special dispensation from the French government, was allowed to use the hyphenated last name.
In 1685, the Cardinal de Bouillon had refused to take part in the marriage of the Duke of Bourbon and Françoise Marie's sister, Mademoiselle de Nantes, and, as a result, had been sent into exile, but he was recalled for the wedding of Françoise-Marie and the Duke of Chartres.
In the episode " The Circus Comes to Town " ( 5 / 28 / 40 ), it is revealed that she met the wealthy Mr. Uppington when she was a circus bareback rider known as Mademoiselle Tootsie Latour.
Crystal Ball ( 1976 ) was moderately successful and also included Shaw's " Mademoiselle " ( which was another minor hit, reaching No. 36 ) and DeYoung's " This Old Man ".
Produced at the Comédie-Française and starring the famous Mademoiselle Mars, Dumas ' play was an enormous success and launched him on his career.
He is said to have collaborated with the elder Dumas in Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle, and a comedy of his, L ' Ecole du monde, was produced at the Theâtre Français in 1840.
When this was discovered, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse was dismissed ( 1764 ), and the salon broke up, for she took with her D ' Alembert, Turgot and the literary clique.
Marie, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Montpensier, brought the duchy to her husband Gaston, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIII, whom she married in 1626, and their daughter and heiress, known as La Grande Mademoiselle was duchess of Montpensier.
When Mademoiselle Anne died childless, her heir ( but an ancestress ' Huguenot marriage after being a nun may have been regarded invalid ) was Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, the then wife of Duke of Orléans.
Mademoiselle de Montpensier was a title conferred upon some women of the royal family, namely during the years previous to the French Revolution.
His mother, born Mademoiselle de Caulet, was of the same millieu, her father serving as a " president of the morter "-a judicial rank-at the Parlement de Toulouse, where Jean-Jacques was also to have a brief tenure.
When Lind was about nine years old, her singing was overheard by the maid of Mademoiselle Lundberg, the principal dancer at the Royal Swedish Opera.
One such song was Mademoiselle, dites-moi donc, which she recorded with Ovila Légaré and featured the two of them bantering and flirting comedicly.
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