Famous quotes containing the words madame de and/or madame:
“Après nous le déluge.
[”After us, the flood.”]”
—Madame De Pompadour (1721–1764)
“There was also a Nonne, a prioresse,
That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy;
Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy.
And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)