Madeleine

Madeleine (French pronunciation: ​[mad.lɛn], English /ˈmædleɪn/), also Madeline (English /ˈmædlaɪn/), is a female name—see Madeleine (given name), which includes lists of people and fictional characters so named. It means "woman of Magdala," or "magnificent." It can be shortened into "Maddie", "Maddy", "Maddi" or "Madi". It may also refer to:

Places

• La Madeleine (disambiguation), 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
• Col de la Madeleine, a high mountain pass in the Alps (el. 1,993 m.) in the department of Savoie in France
• Madeline, California, an unincorporated community
• Madeline, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Madeline Island, off the state of Wisconsin

Arts and entertainment

• Madeline, a book series created by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists, a 1919 novel by Hope Mirrlees
• The "Madeleine Episode" in Marcel Proust's book In Search of Lost Time, the archetypal Involuntary Memory
• Madeleine (1950 film), a 1950 film directed by David Lean
• Madeline (1998 film), a live action adaptation of Bemelmans' series
• Madeleine (2003 film), a South Korean romance
• Madeleine, an operetta by Victor Herbert

Music

• Madeline (musician), an American folk singer-songwriter
• Madeline (album), a 2008 alternative rock album by Tickle Me Pink
• "Madeleine", a song by Paolo Conte on the 2003 album Reverie
• "Madeline", a song by Hanson on the 1997 album Middle of Nowhere
• "Madeline", a song by US band Yo La Tengo on their 2000 LP And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

Other

• Cathedral of the Madeleine, a Roman Catholic church in Salt Lake City
• Église de la Madeleine, a church in Paris
• Tropical Storm Madeline (disambiguation), seven tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific Ocean
• Madeleine (cake), a traditional sweet cake from France
• Madeleine, an object persistence layer written in the Ruby programming language—see System Prevalence
• MS Madeleine, a car ferry operating in Canada

See also

• Magdalene