Madeleine Explained
Madeleine or La Madeleine may refer to:
Common meanings
Christianity
- Mary Magdalene, also called the Madeleine, a follower of Jesus
- La Madeleine, Paris (Église de la Madeleine), a church in Paris
- Église de la Madeleine (Besançon), Doube département, France, a church
- Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, a Roman Catholic cathedral
Arts and entertainment
- Madelein (1919 film), a German silent film
- Madeleine (1950 film), directed by David Lean
- Madeleine (2003 film), a South Korean romance
- Madeleine (2023 film), a Canadian animated short film
- Madeleine (opera), a 1914 one-act opera by Victor Herbert
- "Madeleine" (Backstreet Boys song), a track of In a World Like This
- "Madeleine", a song by Jonathan Kelly, released in 1972
- "Madeleine", a song by Jacques Brel
- Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists, a 1919 novel by Hope Mirrlees
- "Poisoned Madeleines", the title of the prologue to "Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking; A Memoir of Food and Longing", by Anya von Bremen, Random House Audio (2012).
Places
France
- La Madeleine (Laneuville-devant-Nancy), a former commune
- La Madeleine, Manche, a village in Normandy
- La Madeleine, Nord, a town in the Nord département
- La Madeleine, a parish in Faycelles in the Lot département; see Liberty Tree
- La Madeleine, a village in Guérande in the Loire-Atlantique département
- Madeleine (river), in eastern France
- Col de la Madeleine, a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France
- Madeleine cemetery (Cimetière de la Madeleine), Paris, a former cemetery
- Cimetière de la Madeleine, a cemetery in the Saint-Maurice quarter of Amiens, France
- Abri de la Madeleine, cave in Tursac, Dordogne
- Magdalenian, anthropological and culture period named after this cave
Elsewhere
Transportation
Other uses
See also