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La Dame Blanche (French; lit. ' The White Lady ') was the codename for an underground intelligence network that operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I.It was named after a German legend that foretold the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty would be signaled by the appearance of a woman in white.
Dame Blanche or La Dame Blanche (French for "White Lady") may refer to: Dame blanche (dessert), comprising ice cream, whipped cream, and molten chocolate; Dame Blanche (resistance), an underground network in German-occupied Belgium during World War I; Dames blanches, female spirits or supernatural beings in French folklore and mythology
Throughout the war, Service Clarence provided valuable information on a wide range of enemy activity, including coastal defenses, the effects of Allied bombing and the location of German units. The Service Clarence network was a source of high quality and detailed intelligence on enemy troop movements, German order of battle, and Nazi secret ...
La dame blanche (French pronunciation: [la dam blɑ̃ʃ], The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu.The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels Guy Mannering (1815), The Monastery (1820), and The Abbot (1820). [1]
The letter explained that any lady young or old de noble lignée ("of noble lineage") finding herself the victim of injustice could petition one or more or the knights de l'Écu Vert à la Dame Blanche for redress and that knight would respond promptly and leave whatever other task he was performing to fight the lady's oppressor personally. The ...
Den Tun an de Frunnes: Alles an der Rei; Luxemburgisch von Gaston Zangerlé. Zack Publications. Ed. Saint-Paul, Luxembourg; 1996. * Pierre Decock (10 August 2010). La Dame Blanche. un réseau de renseignements de la Grande Guerre. Lulu.com. pp. 276–. ISBN 978-1-4452-9704-0. Pierre Decock (18 August 2010).
The Dark Side of the White Lady (Spanish: El lado obscuro de la dama blanca) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Patricio Henríquez and released in 2006. [1] The film centres on the Esmeralda, a tall ship of the Chilean Navy which is seen as an important national symbol of Chile, but has a darker history of having been used as a prison ship for political prisoners during the ...
All This and World War II is a 1976 musical documentary film [2] directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century-Fox films. [3] The film was panned by critics and ran for only two weeks in cinemas. [4]