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Mélusine (French:) or Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a lamia or a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both.
The White Doe or The Doe in the Woods (La Biche au bois) From ''New Tales, or Fairies in Fashion (Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fees a la Mode) (1698) Belle-Belle (Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné) Green Serpent (Serpentin vert) Puddocky or The White Cat (La Chatte Blanche) The Golden Branch (Le Rameau d'Or) The Pigeon and the Dove (Le Pigeon et ...
Traditionally, most French people were given names from the Roman Catholic calendar of saints. However, given names for French citizens from immigrant communities are often from their own culture, and in modern France it has become increasingly common to use first names of (international) English or other foreign origin.
J. A. MacCulloch believes Dames Blanches are one of the recharacterizations of pre-Christian female goddesses, and suggested their name Dame may have derived from the ancient guardian goddesses known as the Matres, by looking at old inscriptions to guardian goddesses, specifically inscriptions to "the Dominæ, who watched over the home, perhaps became the Dames of mediæval folk-lore."
Nonetheless, in practice the French women's movement developed in much the same way as the feminist movements elsewhere in Europe or in the United States: French women participated in consciousness-raising groups; demonstrated in the streets on the 8 March; fought hard for women's right to choose whether to have children; raised the issue of ...
Historian Maurice Agulhon, who in several works set out on a detailed investigation to discover the origins of Marianne, suggests that it is the traditions and mentality of the French that led to the use of a woman to represent the Republic. [3]
In 1977, 31% of women over 47 years old wore the headdress. This figure drastically decreased to only 500 women (of all ages) in 1993. In 2011 Maria Lambour was one of the last women to wear this headdress on a daily basis. Today it is worn only during cultural events and by rare women on an almost daily basis. [6]
Queen Elena of Italy and Crown Princess Marie-José wearing white garments in the presence of Pope Pius XII at the Quirinal Palace on 27 December 1939.. Le privilège du blanc (pronounced [lə pʁivilɛʒ dy blɑ̃]; "the privilege of the white") is a custom of the Catholic Church that permits certain designated female royalty to wear white clothing (traditionally a white dress and white veil ...