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• Madame Bovary
  1. a NOVEL by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856, which tells the story of a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who, unhappy in her marriage, commits ADULTERY, falls into debt, and finally kills herself.
• Madame Butterfly
  1. (1904) an OPERA by PUCCINI in which a Japanese woman marries an officer in the US navy called Lieutenant Pinkerton, who later leaves her in Japan and marries another woman in the US. When he returns to Japan with his American wife, his Japanese wife kills herself because she is so unhappy.
  2. the main female character of Madame Butterfly
• Madame Curie (noun)
  1. 1867-1934 with her husband and Henri Becquerel born in Poland french chemist who won two Nobel prizes; one for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium
• Madame Tussaud (noun)
  1. 1761-1850 resident in England after 1802 french modeller who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London
• Madame Tussaud's
  1. a MUSEUM in London that contains MODEL s of famous people, both living and dead, made of WAX
• Madame de Maintenon (noun)
  1. 1635-1719 french consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife
• Madame de Stael (noun)
  1. 1766-1817 french romantic writer
• Pompadour, Madame de
  1. (1721-64) the lover of King Louis XV of France from 1745 until her death. She often influenced the king, especially when he had to choose government officials and make political decisions.
• Tussaud, Madame
  1. (1760-1850) a Swiss woman who made MODEL s of people in WAX, including famous people who were killed by the GUILLOTINE in the FRENCH REVOLUTION . In 1802 she established her WAXworks, called MADAME TUSSAUD'S, in London.
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