Madame defarge

Monsieur and Madame Defarge "Still Knitting" (Book Two, Chapter Sixteen) in the Diamond Edition of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

Cloris Leachman as Madame DeFarge in History of the World Part 1 French Revolution, see video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4uvLXCUhVg

Before Egypt and the Internet there was France and Madame Defarge Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a tricoteuse, a tireless worker for the French Revolution and the wife of Ernest Defarge. She is arguably the main villain of the book, and ruthlessly seeks revenge against the Evrèmondes, including Charles Darnay, his wife Lucie Manette and their child for crimes a prior generation of the Evrèmonde family had committed…

Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is my favourite of the books we had to read in high school. I drew a fair bit from it at the time, but who knows where those drawings are now . . . they're probably not worth sharing, anyway. BBC Radio 4 recently ran a new radio dramatisation of the story which inspired me to try my professional hand at the subject matter. Unfortunately I was short on time so didn't do due diligence in researching the costumes, but it was a bit of fun anyway. Madame Defarge was…

Ronald Colman’s magnificent performance as Sydney Carton highlights MGM’s 1935 production of A Tale of Two Cities.

Madame Defarge ease dropping on conversation

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Knit Pix I was supposed to be writing a blog post about literary knitters, so of course I was actually Googling all sorts of tangentially related topics. This led to the creation of a new Pinterest…

Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is a British actress who played the maniacal Red Queen in Tim Burton's 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland, and its sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016). She was Tim Burton's domestic partner from 2001 to 2014, and they have two children, Billy Raymond and Nell Burton, who also appears in Alice in Wonderland. Bonham Carter is also known for her roles as Lucy Honeychurch in the film A Room with a View, Marla Singer in the film Fight Club, Bellatrix…