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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.
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]
Chemin de la Dame Blanche with the ruins of the castle to the left behind the trees In a version from 1870, which was published in 1902, a certain Jean Bahut told the story that he went out to the castle ruins on Christmas Eve as a sixteen-year-old during the French occupation of Geneva at the beginning of the 19th century to shoot some animals ...
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 ...
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; La dame blanche, an opera by François-Adrien Boieldieu
Betty White was almost cast as Blanche on ‘The Golden Girls’ When director Jay Sandrich was hired to helm the “Golden Girls” pilot in 1985, he initially thought of White — who’d ...
The confrontation between Boule-de-Neige and three ministers in act 3 uses the musical theme "Prenez garde! la Dame blanche regarde!" from Boieldieu's La dame blanche. The device of having a man disguised as the bear while reducing the bite of the plot (from the dog in Barkouf) made the piece more acceptable to the public. [8]