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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]
J. A. MacCulloch believes Dames Blanches are one of the recharacterizations of pre-Christian female goddesses, and suggested their name Dame may have derived from the ancient guardian goddesses known as the Matres, by looking at old inscriptions to guardian goddesses, specifically inscriptions to "the Dominæ, who watched over the home, perhaps became the Dames of mediæval folk-lore."
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
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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 ...
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 ...
he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.