• Madame's cravings (French: Madame a des envies), is a 1906 French silent short film produced by the Gaumont Film Company and directed by Alice Guy-Blaché...
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    ISBN 9780195020861. OCLC 863369819. McMahan, Alison J (1997). Madame a des envies (Madam has her cravings): A critical analysis of the short films of Alice Guy Blaché...
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  • Orphée Mécanique compiled on the DVD "Fernsehpropheten":http://www.raumfuerprojektion.de. ARTE, Female Comedies (Madame a des envies, Daisy Doodad's Dial)...
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    Herbert Reginald Gaston Blaché-Bolton was a British-born American film director, producer and screenwriter, born of a French father. He directed more than...
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    The Pit and the Pendulum is a three-reel film adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name, directed, and produced by pioneering French...
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    Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    was appointed royal censor; and in 1745 Madame de Pompadour presented him with a pension of 1000 francs and a post in the royal library. In 1748 his Catilina...
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  • Amende honorable (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
    people, the said Duke of Burgundy, without hood or belt, kneeling before Madame d'Orléans and her children, accompanied by as many people as they would...
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    Louise de La Vallière (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    March 1975). À propos de la mort d'Henriette d'Angleterre Madame, Duchesse d'Orléans [On the Subject of the Death of Henrietta of England, Madame, Duchess...
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    December 1805), also known as Madame de Charrière and in the Netherlands as Belle van Zuylen (Dutch: [ˈbɛlə vɑn ˈzœylə(n)]), was a Dutch and Swiss writer of...
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  • Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise of Montespan (1640 –1707). Madame de Montespan had been the maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress) of Louis...
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    had conferred with a wolf who wished to carry off his lamb. The Abbé de Verrue, it seems, was himself violently in love with Madame de Verrue, and directly...
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    Julie Ferrier (born 5 December 1971) is a French actress, comedian, dancer, writer and theater director. Ferrier is in the eighth generation of actresses...
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    succeeded by Madame de Montespan Madame de Maintenon refused to become the mistress of Louis XIV, and became his second, morganatic wife. Madame de Pompadour...
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    dramatic comedies about family (Quelque chose à te dire, Trésor and Une semaine sur deux (et la moitié des vacances scolaires)). After Fini les vacances...
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    1954 film La Belle Otero starring Mexican actress María Félix. A portrait of "Madame Otero" in Colette's My Apprenticeships. La Belle Otero circa 1890...
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    correspondence Voltaire compared him to Rubens, Madame de Genlis described the painting as a pub sign (“enseigne à bière”). Voltaire owned the original painting...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    in a Letter to Madame de Luxembourg (1761): "... je lui ai déclaré que je ne l'épouserais jamais; et même un mariage public nous eût été impossible à cause...
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    Bellucci et Cartier: songe endiamanté" [Monica Bellucci and Cartier: a diamond dream]. Madame Figaro (in French). Archived from the original on 13 June 2021...
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    1886 À Mort! 1886 Candaulette (serialized in Le Décadent) 1887 La Marquise de Sade (Paris: Mercure de France, 1981) 1890 La Voix du sang 1891 Madame la...
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    complex situation stems from the purchase of a house by Master Nadaud, which is currently occupied by Madame Colivaut, who retains its use until her death...
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    The Blue Bird (fairy tale) (category Works by Madame d'Aulnoy)
    "The Blue Bird" (French: L’oiseau bleu) is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. An English translation was included in The...
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    Trinité se passe, Malbrough ne revient pas. Madame à sa tour monte, mironton, mironton, mirontaine, Madame à sa tour monte si haut qu'elle peut monter....
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    novella was written, Balzac was involved in many salons, including that of Madame Recamier. Around the time in which Sarrasine was published, Balzac experienced...
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    presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of an actress who has worked...
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  • This is a list of some of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 2010s. For an alphabetical list of articles on German films, see...
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    Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    never feels fragile onscreen". In October 2004, a wax figure of Rai was put on display in London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum. She was the sixth Indian...
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  • fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from...
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    de Bourbon, duc d'" . Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850  (in French). Paris: Poignavant et Compagnie...
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    becoming a point of reference to the city. June 10 was declared "Drake Day" in Houston. In 2016, Drake visited Drake University after a show in Des Moines...
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    Talvande (a middle-class bank official) and his mother was Marguerite Adélaïde Louise, née Froger de Mauny, known as Madame de Mauny Talvande. She was a granddaughter...
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