Madeleine — Wikipedia

Madeleine can designate:

• Madeleine, a first name in French, which comes from the first name Magdalena in biblical Latin of Hebrew origin. Magdalena designates in the Gospels a woman of Magdala, village of Galileo, named Mary of Magdala, apostle of Jesus Christ and first witness to her resurrection;
• A Madeleine: a product of picking, hunting or fishing in the Holy Madeleine, celebrated on July 22. The word qualifies in particular in the classic age of fruit varieties that ripen during this time of the year. It can be peaches, plums, apples, pears or grapes. Later, a fishing-madeleine was known in 1715. Madeleine is the name of an early grape variety, for table grapes. The Madeleineaux designate young salmon who appear during this period in the waters bordering the Gulf of St. Lawrence;
• A Madeleine, an old Christian hospice close to an ancient way or road which was able to evolve in medieval times in clumsiness, leprosery, hospital, chapel … often at the origin of current toponyms;
• A Madeleine, a Lorraine pastry specialty invented by the grandmother of Madeleine Paulmier, cook at the service of M ^me Perrotin du Barmon or Baumont. This cake which quickly takes various sizes and shapes of shell is promoted by the Lorraine Court of King Stanislas, father of the Queen of France, Marie Leszczynska, with the aristocratic and royal society of Europe of Enlightenment. However, this version is challenged by historians. Historian Lorrain Charles Sadoul attributes this recipe to a cook by Cardinal de Retz ^{[ first ]} , who was called Madeleine Simonin ^{[ 2 ] , [ 3 ]} . In 1769, Madeleine cakes were soft cupcakes with rounded shapes. Under the Empire, the Magdeleines are already on bourgeois tables before becoming a popular treat after 1845.
• THE Madeleines, In the plural, in French designate the beautiful era the iron to fold the linen.

• Specialists in the old French experience the expression attested in 1223 make the madeleine , that is to say affect repentance with feigned exteriorization aimed at moving its judges or peers. “Crying like a madeleine”, a popular expression attested in 1833, but probably earlier, is synonymous with “crying with tears”.
• The allusion to Madeleine, even to Saint Madeleine in profane or hypocritical mouths, has long kept a connotation of flesh or prostitution sin. Antoine Furetière’s dictionary published in 1690 names Madelonnette A woman of bad life.
• The Madeleine de Proust , expression used in reference to a passage from the work of Marcel Proust where the taste of a madeleine (cake) plunges the narrator into a childhood memory.

• Madeleine islands (homonymy) :
• La Madeleine, a river flowing in the department of the Territoire de Belfort.
• La Madeleine, Rivière de la Manche, tributary of La Douve
• The “arm of the madeleine”, one of the two arms of the Loire, in Nantes
• The Col de la Madeleine, an alpine altitude neck separating the Tarentaise from Maurienne under the Lauzière massif.
• The Madeleine route is a very long, very long street street in Cayenne in French Guyana.
• Place de la Madeleine, in Paris, in France.
• Madeleine , a resort of lines 8, 12 and 14 of the Paris metro.
• Madeleine, ninth station from the antenna to Gosselies from the Charleroi light metro.
• La Madeleine, a Mont or Massif Forestier near Saint-Dié in the Vosges mountains.
• The Madeleine shelter is the eponymous site of the Magdalenian, a prehistoric culture of the Upper Paleolithic.

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• La Madeleine, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, now an integral part of the commune of Nice.
• La Madeleine, in the Dordogne department, now an integral part of the commune of Bergerac.
• La Madeleine, in the Lot department, now an integral part of the town of Faycelles.
• La Madeleine, in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, now an integral part of the commune of Laneuveville-devant-Nancy.
• Tessé-la-Madeleine, in the Orne department, merged in 2000 with the town of Bagnoles-de-l’Orne (this last commune becoming the first ^is January 2016 Bagnoles-de-l’Orne-Normandie).

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• Holy Madeleine, patron of churches better known as Marie-Madeleine Or Marie de Magdala, character of the New Testament.
• Madeleine de France, Queen of Scotland.
• Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne, daughter of Jean III and Jeanne de Bourbon, mother of the Queen of France Catherine de Médicis.
• Madeleine of Austria, founder of a royal convent.
• Marie-Madeleine of Austria (1589-1631), Grande-Duchese de Toscane.
• Marie-Madeleine of Austria (1689-1743), aunt of the Empress Marie-Thérèse, great mistress of the Order of the Star Cross.
• Madeleine, a freed slave, model in 1800 of a painting by Marie-Guillemine Benoist;
• Madeleine of Sweden, Princess of Sweden and daughter of Charles XVI Gustave of Sweden.
• Madeleine Parent (1918-2012), Quebec feminist and trade unionist.
• For all articles on people with this first name, consult:

Madeleine is also a French surname, mainly located in Normandy (Calvados and Manche). Variant : Madelaine .

• Christian art has represented Madeleine abundantly in the form of a beautiful seductive or repentant. The song and the cinema continue this vein far beyond this tradition:
• Madeleine , a song composed by Jacques Brel;
• Madeleine , an album by Jacques Brel (1962),
• Madeleine , a French silent film directed by Jean Kemm, released in 1916;
• Madeleine ( The Making of Maddalena ), an American silent film directed by Frank Lloyd, released in 1916;
• Madeleine , a British film directed by David Lean in 1950;
• Madeleine , a South Korean film directed by Park Kwang-Chun in 2003;
• The Madeleine Project, a Docu-Tweet by Clara Beaudoux.