Madeleine or La Madeleine may refer to:

Common meanings

Madeleine (given name) Madeleine or Madeline has biblical origins. The name Magdalena is derived from the Aramaic term "Magdala" (מגדלא), meaning "tower" or "elevated, great." It refers to the town of Magdala on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally identified as the ...

, also Madeline, a feminine given name, includes a list of people and fictional characters *

Madeleine (cake) The madeleine ( , , ) is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France. Madeleines are very small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired from being bake ...

, a traditional sweet cake from France

Christianity

Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to crucifixion of Jesus, his cr ...

, also called the Madeleine, a follower of Jesus *

La Madeleine, Paris The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (, ), or less formally, La Madeleine (), is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was planned by Louis XV as the focal point of the new Rue Royal, leading t ...

(Église de la Madeleine), a church in Paris *

Église de la Madeleine (Besançon) The église Sainte-Madeleine is a neoclassical 18th century hall church in the Battant district of Besançon, France, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Antoine-Pierre II de Grammont, the archbishop of Besançon In Christian denominations, a ...

, 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 Jonathan Kelly (born Jonathan Ledingham, 8 July 1947 – 2 May 2020) was an Irish folk rock singer-songwriter, who enjoyed a varied career in music, playing with many musicians and groups, including Eric Clapton and Tim Staffell. He formed Jon ...

, released in 1972 * "Madeleine", a song by

Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world ...

* ''Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists,'' a 1919 novel by

Hope Mirrlees (Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British poet, novelist and translator. She is best known for the 1926 '' Lud-in-the-Mist'', an influential fantasy novel, David Langford and Mike Ashley, "Mirrlees, Hope", in David ...

* "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) Laneuveville-devant-Nancy (, literally ''Laneuveville before Nancy'') is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France, which includes the former commune of La Madeleine, notable for manufacturing terra sigillata Ancie ...

, a former commune *

La Madeleine, Manche La Madeleine is a hamlet of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont village in North-western France which was one anchor point of the Utah Beach landings on the D-Day invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europa, 6 June 1944. Geographically, the village was the edge of the ...

, a village in Normandy *

La Madeleine, Nord La Madeleine () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its north side. Heraldry History In 1944, Pierre Marchant and Lucien Olivier, two members of the French resistance ...

, a town in the Nord ''département'' * La Madeleine, a parish in

Faycelles Faycelles (; ) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Lot department The following is a list of the 312 communes of the Lot department of France France, officially the French Republi ...

in the Lot ''département''; see

Liberty Tree The Liberty Tree (1646–1775) was a famous Elm, elm tree that stood in Boston, Massachusetts near Boston Common in the years before the American Revolution. In 1765, Patriot (American Revolution), Patriots in Boston staged the first act of def ...

* La Madeleine, a village in

Guérande Guérande (; , ; ) is a medieval town located in the departments of France, department of Loire-Atlantique, and the administrative regions of France, region of Pays de la Loire, Western France. The inhabitants are referred to as ''Guérandais'' ...

in the Loire-Atlantique ''département'' *

Madeleine (river) The Madeleine () is a river in north eastern France, in the Territoire de Belfort ''département''. It is 25.4 km long, and its basin area is 92 km2. It begins in the Vosges mountains, near the commune of Lamadeleine-Val-des-Anges. It ...

, in eastern France *

Col de la Madeleine Col de la Madeleine (el. 1,993 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France which connects La Chambre in Maurienne with La Léchère in Tarentaise. The pass is closed from November to the beginning of June. It ...

, a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France *

Madeleine cemetery Madeleine Cemetery (in French known as ''Cimetière de la Madeleine'') is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Ma ...

(''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 The archaeological site Abri de la Madeleine (Magdalene Shelter) is a rock shelter under an overhanging cliff situated near Tursac, in the Dordogne ''département'' of the Aquitaine région of southwestern France. It represents the type site of t ...

, cave in

Tursac Tursac () is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. '' Abri de la Madeleine'' is the site of Magdalenian prehistoric finds. Population See also *Communes of the Dordogne department The follow ...

Dordogne Dordogne ( , or ; ; ) is a large rural departments of France, department in south west France, with its Prefectures in France, prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and ...

Magdalenian Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; ) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe. They date from around 17,000 to 12,000 years before present. It is named after the type site of Abri de la Madeleine, a ro ...

, anthropological and culture period named after this cave

Elsewhere

Magdalen Islands The Magdalen Islands (, ) are a Canadian archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Since 2005, the 12-island archipelago is divided into two municipalities: the majority-francophone Municipality of Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the majority-angloph ...

(French: ''Îles de la Madeleine''), a group of islands in the Gulf of St. Laurence, Quebec, Canada *

Îles de la Madeleine (Senegal) The Îles de la Madeleine () lie west of Dakar in Senegal. The islands are uninhabited. The main island is Sarpan, known for its Stone Age tool finds. The islands are also known for their birds, fish and plant life. The cliffs are steep, and had ...

, uninhabited islands and a national park off the shore of Dakar

Transportation

Boulevard de la Madeleine The Boulevard de la Madeleine () is one of the 11 original '' grands boulevards'' of Paris, France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territorie ...

, one of the four 'grands boulevards' in Paris *

Madeleine (Paris Métro) Madeleine station () is a station on lines 8, 12 and 14 of the Paris Métro in central Paris and the 8th arrondissement. Location The station is located under the Place de la Madeleine, the platforms being positioned: * on Line 8, east of th ...

, a rapid transit station * MS ''Madeleine'', a 1981 car ferry operating in Canada

Other uses

Château de la Madeleine The Château de la Madeleine () is a castle located in the town of Chevreuse, in the French ''département'' of Yvelines (Île de France). In a good state of preservation, it was built on the top of a hill and dominates the town. The name comes ...

, a castle in the town of Chevreuse, in the département of Yvelines, France *

La Madeleine (restaurant chain) La Madeleine de Corps, Inc., operating as La Madeleine, is a restaurant chain of 86 locations (as of 2018) in the U.S. states of Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia and Arizona. Its headquarters is ...

, a U.S.-based restaurant chain * ''Madeleine'', a book by Jean Overton Fuller, the codename of

Noor Inayat Khan Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpo ...

(1914–1944), World War II Allied agent in Nazi-occupied France. * Madeleine, pen name of

Anne-Marie Huguenin Anne-Marie Huguenin (5 October 1875 – 21 October 1943), also known by her pen name Madeleine, was a Canadian writer, journalist and editor. She is considered one of the first women journalists in Canada.' She edited ''La Patrie (Canadian ne ...

(1875–1943), Canadian journalist * Madeleine, an object persistence layer written in the Ruby programming language—see System prevalence