Madeleine

Madeleine (say- Mad-e-lynn or Mad-e-lane) or Madeline(say- Mad-e-line) is a female name. See Madeleine (given name). It means "woman of Magdala," or "magnificent." It can be shortened into "Maddie" or "Maddy" or "Maddi." It may also refer to:

Places and buildings

• Cathedral of the Madeleine, a Roman Catholic church in Salt Lake City
• Église de la Madeleine, one of the great churches of Paris
• La Madeleine, various communes in France
• Madeleine (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris near the Église de la Madeleine
• Madeleine (river), a river in eastern France
• Madeline, California, unincorporated community in Lassen County

Art and literature

• Madeline, a fictional character and book series created by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Madeline (1998 film), a live action adaptation of the series
• Monsieur Madeleine, an alias used by the character Jean Valjean in the novel Les Misérables
• Madeleine (film), a 1950 film directed by David Lean
• Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists, a 1919 novel by Hope Mirrlees
• Madeleine, an operetta by Victor Herbert
• Maddie Fitzpatrick (Madeline), a fictional character in Disney's TV series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
• Madeleine L'Engle, author who wrote the Wrinkle in Time series
• The famous "Madeleine Episode" in Marcel Proust's book In Search of Lost Time, the archetypal Involuntary Memory
• Madeline "Mads" Ryback, fictional character in The Lying Game

Music

• Madeline (album), a 2008 alternative rock album by Tickle Me Pink.
• Madeline (musician), a folk singer/songwriter from Georgia

Other

• Madeleine (cake), a traditional sweet from France
• Madeleine, an object persistence layer written in the Ruby programming language—see System Prevalence
• MS Madeleine, a car ferry operating in Canada
• Princess Madeleine, princess of Sweden (b. 1982)
• Madeline Ivalu, canadian filmmaker and actor.

See also

• Magdalene