Madame de Tencin

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)