How To Use Madame In A Sentence
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A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
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Madame Grès, born Germaine Krebs, was once as well-known as her contemporary Coco Chanel, but while Ms. Chanel sold mass-produced ready-to-wear, Ms. Grès designed only hand-made haute couture that sold first as the label "Alix" and later as "Madame Grès.
Collecting Vintage Dresses Like Art
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The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass.
Brittany & Its Byways
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I gave my ideas on "playwriting" again at Philadelphia, and was told just before I began that there were several dramatists in the room, including the author of Madame Butterfly.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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Madame Zara caters for a very select clientele.
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_philosopheress_ Madame du Châtelet, who managed, at one and the same moment, the thread of an intrigue, her cards at piquet, and a calculation in algebra, was a very clever woman!
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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My brother-in-law went into another room, and madame de Bearn began to unswathe her foot in my presence with the utmost caution and tenderness.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
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Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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After a long time, having obtained with difficulty the consent of the timid Du Mont, I made Madame de Saint-Simon speak to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who undertook to arrange the affair as well as it could be arranged.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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“Then, madame, am I not overbold in offering myself to be your partner for the next quadrille?”
Domestic Peace
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The plot is thus: Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own death through her crystal ball with only 24 hours before the allotted hour.
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He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper.
Une Vie
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Madame Olenska has had an unhappy life: that doesn't make her an outcast.
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Pictured, Ms. Kapoor, left, posed with her waxwork at Madame Tussauds in England, Oct. 27.
India's Most Googled, 2011
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To Madame Hanska he revealed more the cankering disappointment, just as he had a twelvemonth previously, after the mishap of the School for Husbands and
Balzac
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Madame de Vernuel, who saw it, had not said la Reine boit.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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It is said that imitation is the sincerest flattery; and if Isabel was sometimes moved to gape at her friend aspiringly and despairingly it was not so much because she desired herself to shine as because she wished to hold up the lamp for Madame Merle.
The Portrait of a Lady
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Je ne suis que le frotteur de madame, said the man, placing his arm a-kimbo, and flying about the room, in all sorts of attitudes, in, what Peter thought, a very burlesque manner.
Paris Lions and London Tigers
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Only the old woman knew well the crucible, and the great work -- the one was cuckoldom, and the other the private property of Madame Advocate.
Droll Stories — Volume 2
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Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine.
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The Captain is the benevolent-yet-stern sheriff of this here town and Madame La is his beatific, beautiful wife.
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The former was called Madame, because she was canoness of a chapter at Lorraine.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
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- While I was still under the almost first impression of grief for the loss of my dear and honoured father I received a letter from Windsor Castle, written by Madame Beckersdorff, at the command of her majesty, to desire I would take the necessary measures for being presented to son altesse royale Madame
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!'
Stray Pearls
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The syndic is a lively young man, and he receives Madame Adolphe with
Analytical Studies
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The galleries linking the chambers, often piled high with bottles of maturing bubbly, are named after places where Madame Pommery sold large quantities of champagne.
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She made a formal declaration that her Majesty, with the assistance of Madame Campan, had packed up all her jewelry some time before the departure; that she was certain of it, as she had found the diamonds, and the cotton which served to wrap them, scattered upon the sofa in the Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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The historian Sismondi declared, "You have not known Madame de Staël at all if you have not seen her with Benjamin Constant.
The Great de Staël
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The lord of cuckoldom and its surrounding lands, who is a strange lord, managed things so well, that madame was only conversing with her lord lover at the time that her lord spouse was talking to the constable and the king; at which he was pleased, and so was his wife -- a case of concord rare in matrimony.
Droll Stories — Volume 3
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This fine revival stars — and the verb is for once deeply appropriate — Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole, Jayne Atkinson, and Angela Lansbury in the role of Madame Arcati.
Blithe Spirit
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Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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So soone as Dioneus had ended his Novell, Madame Lauretta also knew, that the conclusion of her Regiment was come; whereupon, when the counsell of Canigiano had past with generall commendation, and the wit of Salabetto no lesse applauded, for fitting it with such an effectuall prosecution; shee tooke the Crowne of Laurell from her owne head, and set it upon Madame Aimilliaes, speaking graciously in this manner.
The Decameron
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We began with soup, chicken for Madame and steak and kidney for me.
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The long sustained deception has been dropped," says a paragraphist, "and the young man who assumed the name of 'Madame Zoyara' is now to be seen in correct masculine attire.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
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The third portrait he promised to give to Madame Zborowska in gratitude for acting as a model.
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The ordinary flowering Geranium must be pinched back, and pruned constantly to prevent it from becoming "leggy," but there is no trouble of this kind with Madame Salleroi.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
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A lady at Paris, Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
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Madame Calderón de la Barca (a quien, debo decirlo, Dresser cita mal en su discurso, pues vivió en México en el siglo XIX y no en el XVII, como la Dra. mencionó) y Alexander von Humboldt se maravillaron de muchas de las cosas que vieron en México, pero si algo llamó su atención fue la enorme riqueza del país y la gran pobreza que vivía a su alrededor.
��Cu��ndo nos daremos cuenta de que M��xico es s��lo nuestro?
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Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame
Europe After 8:15
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The chemist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrançois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone!
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
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Madame Dort waddled over to the workbench, clanked her toolbox down beside it, flipped the heavy metal latches, and flung the thing open.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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“It refers to the dissipation of your fortune to the advantage of a certain Madame Jeanrenaud, the widow of a bargemaster — or rather, to that of her son, Colonel Jeanrenaud, for whom you are said to have procured an appointment, to have exhausted your influence with the King, and at last to have extended such protection as secures him a good marriage.
The Commission in Lunacy
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A sampler of this collection was also presented during a recent show of Satya Paul at Madame Tussaud's in London.
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Madame sighed and lifted the hem of her long, dusty rose pink dress out of the snow with her free hand.
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AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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MADAME, -- A peine arrivée dans cette contrée hospitalière après 9 jours d'une cruelle agonie, mon premier sentiment, après avoir béni la
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
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For mains, Madame chose the pepper steak, which was presented to her order, while I went for the pork fillets, stuffed with champignons and pancake potatoes.
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A woman who had been standing next to me called out, Madame!
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Next, they admired the clothes in the window of Madame Irene's and Adele got the chance to tut-tut about the price of things.
JUST BETWEEN US
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This little gentilesse pleased, and atoned for the popery of my house, which was not serious enough for Madame de Boufflers, who is Montmorency, et du sang du premier Chritien; and too serious for Madame Dusson, who is a Dutch Calvinist.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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It's there in the lyrics of Christina Aguilera, the styling of Britney Spears and even the poses of mannequins in Madame Tussaud's (where a waxwork of Kylie Minogue depicts her on all fours with her bottom poking into the air).
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Today, Madame X presents a sphinx-like figure - beautiful, imperious, and impenetrable.
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An employee of Madame (Veuve) Cliquot devised the system of pupitres to assist in the remuage process, which we know as riddling, that removes the sediment after the prise de mousse (development of the sparkle).
At My Table
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Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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I, Madame Zoe, chiromancer, lifelong student of the moldings and markings of the human hand; I, Madame Zoe, to whom no facet of your character or destiny is not readily revealed, I am prepared to ...
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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Madame de Sevigne telling the story of the poisoner, Madame de Brinvilliers, about to undergo the water torture.
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Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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Then follows the tying of the skirt of the dress, which is suspended on hooks round the bottom of the corset, the buttoning of the corsage, the preliminary tapping and caressing necessary to make the folds of the skirt sit well, and then madame la baronne makes her appearance triumphantly before her friends assembled in the adjoining saloon.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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Madame, I goe as thou seest in this famous Voyage, as well for mine Honour, as also the benefite of my soule; all our goodes and possessions, I commit to thy vertuous care.
The Decameron
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Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.
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At the command every student in the room hurriedly parked themselves in their specific seats and waited for instructions from the teacher, Madame Besson.
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Will your majesty permit me to call the footman, and ask him to hurry up the postilion?" said Madame von Berg, leaning out of the window.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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French had just succeeded in taking across the last piece of artillery, a long "culverin" [1] (cannon), named _Madame de Forli_, [2] which had been re-taken from the Spaniards at Ravenna, was so heavy that it sank the first boat, and the poor soldiers, seeing they were lost, escaped as best they could, but many were killed and others drowned.
Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
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You see, Madame ----, and Madame ----, and Madame Budd, and myself thought we would visit Lady Washington, and as she was said to be so grand a lady, we thought we must put on our best bibbs and bands.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
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It was well after sunrise and Madame Comer was yet to show her spectacled face at Versailles.
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Mr. Richards supports the argument of counsel for Madame Bihi on this question.
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Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work.
The Living Present
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His new apparel somewhat shocked M. and Madame de Meroul who even at home on their estate always remained serious and respectable, as the particle "de" before their name exacted a certain amount of ceremonial even with their intimate friends.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
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Charisma by Madame Tussaud", fumes venerable film critic Roger Ebert, as the film prepares effortlessly to hold its position at the top of the box office on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend.
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Sorel is predestined to fire his fatal pistol shot at Madame de
Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture
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“Do you mean to say, Madame, that you really think those chisellings and screws are forty years old?”
Uncle Silas
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Only Madame Hayle was allowed to do that, and the parson's wife, being quite without madame's art of doing as she pleased, had had to submit conscience and compassions to the captain's forbiddal, repeated by the commodore and Hugh.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
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In matters less material Madame d'Alberg took as director the great authority of Shakspeare, and none can tell how many countless times she justified herself by repeating in the most suasory tone this little extract from Hamlet:
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
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It will be noted that Madame Seiler spoke of the vocal bands (cords) proper as the "ligamentous glottis," and included in the "glottis" the arytenoid cartilages themselves, or, at all events, that part of them, their lower anterior angles, known as the vocal processes (or extensions), to which the vocal bands proper are attached.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
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When you happen to see either Monsieur or Madame Perny, I beg you will give them this melancholic proof of my caducity, and tell them that the last time I went to see the boys, I carried the Michaelmas quarterage in my pocket; and when I was there I totally forgot it; but assure them, that
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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A Sotelte, callid a pellican on hire nest with briddis and an ymage of Seint Katerine with a whele in hire hande disputyng with the Hethen clerks, having this Reason in hir hande, _Madame la Roigne_; the Pellican answeryng _Cest enseigne_; the briddes answeryng _Est du roy pur tenir joie.
A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
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Bonjour Madame!" he'd say whenever he saw me, a little too flirtily for his age.
The Red Cross Hotel (Part Five)
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But the Madame concluded, I have faith that certain ineludible and fundamental principles are again emerging regnant and that self-interest, I repeat self-interest, of the superpowers will insure wiser and thought-out decisions.
The Last Empress
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But both the Italians and the Englishman felt the entertainment would be incomplete without hearing the celebrated vocalist and improvvisatrice who presided over the little banquet; and Madame de Montaigne, with a woman's tact, divined the general wish, and anticipated the request that was sure to be made.
Ernest Maltravers — Complete
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Seeing Madame Alberte in the window on cinema verite set my heart aflutter.
Mamie - French Word-A-Day
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Devoid of attractions or of amiable manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head — that of a woman near on sixty — with a cap of a particular and unvarying shape, with long lappets, like that of a widow.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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The reac - tion to the scholarly Sismondi was fairly mild, to the foreign Schlegel violent, and to Madame de Staël it was mixed and frequently baffled.
ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
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Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
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This was the kind of thinking that underlay the inspirational movies produced by Warner Brothers in the 1930s for which Variety coined the term "biopic" – films about medical pioneers, democratic revolutionaries and other movers and shakers who changed the world, invariably men MGM's Madame Curie was a rare exception.
The Iron Lady – review
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He led, I followed; he opened the door of a breakfast parlour -- "_Tenez, madame, voici le monsieur qui m'a renverse hier au soir_.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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As to Madame de S **, I am by no means bound to be her beadsman -- she was always more civil to me in person than during my absence.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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The marquis made madame and Julia all the reparation in his power, by offering immediately to reconduct them to the main road, and to guard them to some place of safety for the night.
A Sicilian Romance
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If madame la baronne will be good enough to come to-morrow, I will compose something for her in the mean time.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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She is seated alone, when her clever maid Susanna ushers in the young page Cherubino, just banished from the house because obnoxious to the jealous Count.] _Susanna_ -- Here's our young Captain, Madame.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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We then went up and tried our own particular choices, with Madame having a hearty appetite that evening, as you will have seen from the photograph of her plate!
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“Madame la vicomtesse,” said the abbe, who entered first into the little salon, “Monsieur le docteur Minoret was not willing that you should have the trouble of coming to him —”
Ursula
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He came to me one day and said he was sorry, Madame, but he wanted to go and work for someone else.
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Madame de Stael: "To understand everything means to forgive everything," has never particularly appealed to me; it has the odor of the confessional; to forgive one's fellow-being conveys the idea of pharisaical superiority.
Anarchism and Other Essays
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I remember the etymology of the word Oz, at least as proposed at a lecture by our Head, Madame Morrible.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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“Ah, madame!” said Butscha, “what you call my hump is the socket of my wings.”
Modeste Mignon
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Madame Roux is the latest addition to the City's growing sporting stable, which already includes a ladies football team and various motor-racing interests.
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Madame Antoine's place is immaculate, clean, and white.
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Ellen yearned to make a riposte, to say that all this seeming prosperity was insubstantial as a fog, but Madame Angelique suddenly held her drawing aloft, declaring, But see, an illustration excellente!
The Dressmaker
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I often managed, in our short interviews, to give them notes which Madame Élisabeth had contrived to secrete from the searches of the municipals; these notes usually related to information desired by Their Majesties.
The Ruin of a Princess
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Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism.
The Last Empress
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With a sour smile he got upon his feet, and, making an elaborate courtesy to Madame de St. André, passed through the colonnade from the bosquet.
Calvert of Strathore
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That would certainly scandalize Madame Piquemal - a young lady of Monique Colin's persona seeking him out in his bedroom at this hour.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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One thundery afternoon he goes riding with Madame Polozov.
Betrayals Of Love
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The first madame foreperson was Pallas Athena.
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Later, Madame Du Barry sent for the now famous _ebeniste_ (cabinet maker); and, when her negro page Zamore admitted him, he found His
All About Coffee
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More useful were sessions with Madame Mansouri, a physiotherapist, who was indefatigable in her attempts to get Kit to sit up unaided, to roll over and to crawl.
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Ah!" replied Bronze, shrugging up his shoulders, "dere be always in dese places people who love to give demselves ridicules: — for exemple; il ya la belle Madame Macfarlane, vid one epaule a half foot higher dan de odre, and who tink all men vill like her better dan her pretty belle fille.
The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale
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Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism.
The Last Empress
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Le linge qui séche but not Le singe qui léche Madame: votre mouton bouille not Madame: votre bouton mouille Sex in the drawing room:
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
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It was Madame in the doorway, loudly disputing the accuracy of the information and the need for a power cut.
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Among his works are the celebrated five franc piece known as "à l'Hercule," the five centime and one decime pieces, on which the head of Liberty is the profile of Madame Récamier, and seven medals relating to America: John Paul Jones, General Morgan, General Greene,
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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When he saw that Madame Delmare was obliged to make an effort to listen to him, he held his peace, and naught could be heard save the innumerable little voices whispering in the burning wood, the plaintive song of the log as it becomes heated and swells, the crackling of the bark as it curls before breaking, and the faint phosphorescent explosions of the alburnum, which emits a bluish flame.
Indiana
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I answered that he would find the sum in the hands of Madame d'Urfe's solicitor, and that he could receive it as soon as he had given replevy on the bail at the Fort l'Eveque.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.
Travel
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Madame Noire had the chargrilled sirloin steak, which came with fried onions and a spicy peppercorn sauce.
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Dutocq had seen with great uneasiness what he called the liaison of des Lupeaulx with Madame Rabourdin, and his silent wrath on the subject was accumulating.
Bureaucracy
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That would be Morpho cypris, " Madame Goody chimed in cheerfully.
Another Roadside Attraction
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I was lifted directly into Madame de Vs Coterieand she put off the epocha of deism for two years.
63. Paris
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A plaster cast of Madame Fournier stood in the artist's studio.
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Madame de Maintenon's difficulty (and with fewer resources to meet it) of trying to amuse a man who was not amusable.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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I saw your desire of saving Madame Duval, and scarce could I refrain giving the brutal Captain my real opinion of his savage conduct; but I am unwilling to quarrel with him, lest I should be denied entrance into a house which you inhabit; I have been endeavouring to prevail with him to give up his absurd new scheme, but I find him impenetrable: – I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore; – and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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This makes for a natural dissolve to the internal workings of the company and, specifically, the Colet boardroom, in which Madame Colet is meeting with her governing board.
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If you're looking for a medium-sized bush for borders, four-foot-tall Madame Isaac Pereire, a blowsy Bourbon rose with arching canes full of opulent purplish-pink flowers is deliciously fragrant and reblooms throughout the summer.
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Madame Noire had the chargrilled sirloin steak, which came with fried onions and a spicy peppercorn sauce.
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“As to Madame de S **, I am by no means bound to be her beadsman ” she was always more civil to me in person than during my absence.
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
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Japanese threads are lining the way, with Madame Killer, a terrific shop of Japanglish get-ups and deck-outs.
3quarksdaily
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Auerbach tries later to combine two contradictory conceptions of realism; first something which might be called existentialism: the agonizing revelations of reality in moments of supreme decisions, in “limiting situations”: Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, Madame du Chastel deciding not to rescue her son from execution, the Duke of
REALISM IN LITERATURE
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The reason of this was perhaps that Isabel offered no resistance whatever to Madame Merle's proposal.
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Madame Clicquot is credited with the perfection of this technique.
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The thing itself appears first definitely [404] in Madame de la Fayette, largely, though not unmixedly, in Marivaux, and to some extent in Prévost and Marmontel, while it is, as it were, sublimed in Rousseau, and present very strongly in
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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This is curiously illustrated by what may be termed a conjoint epistle addressed to Professor Janet by Madame B. and her secondary self, Léonie II.
Real Ghost Stories
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Germany and England, corresponded regularly with Madame Blavatsky and Olcot, wrote in spiritualist journals, and was always giving ad hoc séances.
Wladyslaw Reymont - Autobiography
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She speaks admiringly of Madame Blavatsky, theosophy's founder, as well as England's leading theosophists Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater.
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The true expression is, Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses ne mest demeuré que lhonneur et la vie qui est sauvé.
Quotations
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Dieu, notre Père, tu as établi Roi des nations ton Fils bien-aimé, le Christ Jésus ; à la prière de sa mère la Vierge Marie, Reine et beauté du Carmel accorde à ton Eglise de recevoir comme modèle la vénérable Thérèse de Saint-Augustin, Madame Louise de France, en confirmant la sainteté de sa vie.
Venerable Therese of St. Augustine
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I have just been telling you what I think, in order to explain why the elephantine gambols of Madame Tetralani spoil the orchestra for me.
Chapter 24
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Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism.
The Last Empress
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In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the Little Convent.
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Madame La Tour the safety of her garrison, who were to march out with their arms and personal belongings, the household goods of her people; and La Tour's ship with provisions enough to stock it for a voyage.
The Lady of Fort St. John
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Ask Madame Wu, she'll tell you that this jackanape knows the difference between a bone-in and a butterfly cut, which perhaps is the deepest cut of all, savvy?
Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday
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A plaster cast of Madame Fournier stood in the artist's studio.
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Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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Madame de Staël -- which can even "seem to be" those of "pillars"; and it may appear fantastic and almost insulting to mention one, who in long stretches of his work might almost be called a mere muckheap-raker, in company with them.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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In spite of Sir Matthew Hope's benevolent recommendation Madame Merle did not remain to the end.
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Liszt was sitting with Madame Mayendorff on the settee behind me.
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Marechale (de Mirepoix) had been extremely severe upon her, for what they called the baseness of her conduct, with regard to Madame de Pompadour.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Madame Speck said they always drank it; and so placing a teaspoonful of bohea in a cauldron of water, she placidly handed out this decoction, which we took with cakes and tartines.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
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Your sledge is waiting, Madame," announced the newcomer.
Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child
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Madame Cleo, who is now as widely known as a diseuse, a liseuse, a friseuse and a clairvoyante, leaped into sudden prominence last November by her startling announcement that the seven letters in the Kaiser's name W i l h e l m represented the seven great beasts of the apocalypse; in the next month she electrified all Paris by her disclosure that the four letters of the word C z a r-- by substituting the figure 1 for C, 9 for Z, 1 for A, and 7 for R produce the date 1917, and indicated a revolution in Russia.
The Hohenzollerns in America
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Francis of Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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A piercing shriek attracted the workmen from the factory to the spot; Madame Delmare had fainted on the bank, and Noun's body was floating in the water at her feet.
Indiana
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Had Eustache been more astute, that is to say, less greedy, he would have waited, and not till they had returned to the University, to Maître Andry Musniers house in the Rue Madame-la-Valence, and he had put the two arms of the Seine and the five bridges of the city between the Rat-Hole and the cake, would he have hazarded this question.
III. The Story of a Wheaten Cake. Book VI
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That would certainly scandalize Madame Piquemal - a young lady of Monique Colin's persona seeking him out in his bedroom at this hour.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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Last Sunday was the festival of All Saints; on the evening of which day, we walked out under the portales, with M. and Madame de —, — minister and his wife, to look at the illumination, and at the numerous booths filled with sugar skulls, etc.; temptingly ranged in grinning rows, to the great edification of the children.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
Latest survey shows safest states in Mexico
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Madame des Grassins was one of those lively, plump little women, with pink-and-white skins, who, thanks to the claustral calm of the provinces and the habits of a virtuous life, keep their youth until they are past forty.
Eug�nie Grandet
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And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud's, another of the capitals major tourist attractions.
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Page 192, Volume 4 tion was popularized in England only through Madame de Staël, who made Schlegel and Sismondi known in
ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
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Madame La Tour the safety of her garrison, who were to march out with their arms and personal belongings, the household goods of her people; and La Tour's ship with provisions enough to stock it for a voyage.
The Lady of Fort St. John
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“Not” (with animation), “not at the pensionnat of Madame Beck?”
Villette
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We know that madame is too generous and too large-minded to be willing to be a burden on her children.
A Marriage Contract
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At a dozen parties where I have been since, this unfortunate adventure has always been an object of conversation, of witticisms, but not of blame, except at Madame Fouche's, where Madame Leboure was very much blamed indeed for having been so overnice, and foolishly scrupulous.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Dupont-Derval, making it revertible to her daughter, though she was sufficiently wealthy not to need it, and the other Madame Dupont-Derval was in actual need.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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For days upon days, merchants and traders had brought various bolts and pieces of cloth for Erial and Madame to consider.
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How they live in their families, I do not choose to enquire; but, in public, Madame appears in her robe of gold, or silver stuff, with her powder and frisure, her perfumes, her paint and her patches; while Monsieur Le Comte struts about in his lace and embroidery.
Travels through France and Italy
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But before I disappeared she assured me that I should meet with a most gracious reception, for her altesse royale had declared she would see me with marked favour, if she saw no other English whatsoever; because Madame d'Arblay, she said, was the only English person who had been peculiarly recommended to her notice by the Queen of England.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate them.
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A street- lamp faced him, and in its light he saw Julius Beaufort's compact English brougham, drawn by a big roan, and the banker descending from it, and helping out Madame Olenska.
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Other awarded projects include vet Mexican helmer Arturo Ripstein's "Las Razones del corazon," described as a contempo Mexican "Madame Bovary," teaming Mexico's Kmz and Spain's Wanda Vision, and Marcelo Tolces 'youth drama "18 cigarillos y medio," a three-way co-production between Mexico's Canaca Holdings, Paraguay's 18 y Medio Films and Spain's Tornasol.
Variety.com
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Chancellor Angela Merkel, once the euro zone's "Madame Non," led a push to assemble the new Greek bailout program.
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Madame Wang was sitting in Mrs. Hsüeh's apartments, whither she had just crossed, when she perceived Chia Huan come back from school, and she bade him transcribe incantations out of the Chin Kang Canon and intonate them.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
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It is not Edinburgh's fault that Hogmanay rolls around at the coldest part of the year in one of the chilliest parts of Britain; it certainly is Madame Tussauds' fault that it charges nearly £30 for an adult ticket to view what amount to novelty candles, making the attraction one of the few places where a slow-burning fire would be welcome.
Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out
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_ A 'fontange' was a bow of ribbons, so called from the celebrated Madame de Fontanges.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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Langibout is _le type pur de l'ancienne école_; Madame Gervaisais, too, is _un exemple et un type_ of the intellectual _bourgeoise_ of
Renée Mauperin
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During the eighteenth century Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, was a frequent guest here; now, her favourite room with its canopied bed is yours for the asking.
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Only two other tables were occupied: at the one two men and a woman played _manille_, on the other a pair of players rattled dominoes, Madame Boin, sunk into her rolls of fat, drowsed on her throne behind the counter.
The Belovéd Vagabond
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South African situation is that exactly because capital permits us to enter the city, to pass through the sacred portals of a white church, and set foot in the even more sacred sanctuary of madame's bedroom, but only as workers, capital thereby indicates to us daily that it is in fact our labour that makes the city to live, that gives voice to the predikant, the preacher and provides-the necessary conditions for procreation.
The Historical Injustice
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Madame Marie Curie was, and still is the world's most famous woman scientist.
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The soldiers in many of the hospitals are doing flat beadwork, which is ingenious and pretty; but nothing compares with these necklaces of Madame Balli, and some of the best dressed American women in Paris are wearing them.
The Living Present
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The performances included 5 separate acts by Madame Jim, with full costume changes, which earned mountains of applause.
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Above this parlour is a small room, whose low ceiling is supported by beams, which was, in all probability, Madame de Broglie's bedroom.
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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MADAME DE SCHULEMBOURG'S carriage, drawn by two beautiful Hanoverian ponies, cream in colour, with long manes and tails like floss silk, was followed by a britzka; but despatches called away Mr. Revel, and Novalis stole off to his studio.
Sketches
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Madame in action was a performance in itself - like a wild horse galloping off, uncatchable.
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I've only read 'Madame Bovary' in translation .
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“Perhaps the cream voile, Madame Hughes?” offered Madame Sophie, holding out a light, puffed creation.
Exit the Actress
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The term fixed by Madame Desvarennes with the Prince had expired that morning.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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You will be lured to a gallery of Gilded Age portraits, including John Singer Sargent's legendry "Madame X.
The New World Reborn
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In fact, thought Roskill, he looked rather like a solitary, oversized waxwork which had been stolen from Madame Tussaud's and then abandoned to become a pedestrian obstacle: he stood unmoving, engrossed in a dull-looking, stiff-covered mag; azine, oblivious of the passers-by who eddied round him and of the traffic which accelerated past his nose.
The Alamut Ambush
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Madame Cholet, a kindly countrywoman who lived in the neighbouring house, knitted her woolly socks to keep her feet warm during pruning.
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Madame Bron, who had been thirty years in the theatre, replied quite sourly.
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The drug that helped Madame X keep her head while doctors chiseled away at her nose was a phenothiazine.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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Every dispute in which her undeserving husband engages, is productive of pain and uneasiness to herself; of this I am so sensible, that I even besought her not to send to Madame Duval; but she declared she could not bear to have me pass all my time, while in town, with her only.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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Adapted from a 16th century 30 page story by Madame de Lafayette, the film also features Lambert Wilson, perhapsthe most appealing of French actors see the very fine Of Gods and Men, as Chabanne, a soldier who transgresses military code by murdering a pregnant woman, driving his long blade through her belly, for which he renounces violence.
Regina Weinreich: My Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
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With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass***, private secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val**, who published, under the pseudonyme of Charles – Antoine, monorhymed odes, the Prince de
Les Miserables
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Madame de Meroul, who even at home on their estate always remained serious and respectable, as the particle "de" before their name exacted
Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
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The pair consisted of a tortoiseshell and white female called Madame Butterfly and a red and white male called Richard.
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I have spent all morning taking your measurements Madame as the Count asked me to do.
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“I saw your desire of saving Madame Duval, and scarce could I refrain giving the brutal Captain my real opinion of his savage conduct; but I am unwilling to quarrel with him, lest I should be denied entrance into a house which you inhabit; I have been endeavouring to prevail with him to give up his absurd new scheme, but I find him impenetrable: — I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore; - and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.”
Evelina
