MADELEINE

Madeleine

Madeleine is a 1950 film directed by David Lean, based on a true story about Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. The trial was much publicized in the newspapers of the day and was labelled "the trial of the century"/ Lean's adaptation of the story stars his then wife, Ann Todd with Ivan Desny as her French lover. Norman Wooland played the respectable suitor, and Leslie Banks the authoritarian father, who are both unaware of Madeleine's secret life.

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madeleine

Noun

  1. A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
  2. Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time).


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