Blanche
Blanche (French for "the white one") is
- a female first name, see Blanche (first name) - there also namesake
Blanche is the stage name of:
- Blanche (singer) (real name Ellie Delvaux), Belgian singer
Blanche means:
- Blanche (Durance) , river in France, tributary of the Durance
- Blanche (film) , directed by Walerian Borowczyk (1971)
- HMS Blanche , ship
- the HMS Blanche (H47) , Royal Navy B-class destroyer
- Blanche (Métro Paris) , a station of the Métro Paris
- Blanche (ship) , first steel steamship built by A. & J. Inglis (1863)
- Blanche (animated series) , animated series from 2003 to 2006
Blanche is the name of the following rulers:
- Blanche d'Artois (1248–1302), regent of Navarre and Champagne-Brie
- Blanche de Bourgogne ( Blanka of Burgundy ; 1295–1326), Queen of France
- Blanche de Castille ( Blanka of Castile ; 1188–1252), third daughter of King Alfonso VIII of Castile
- Blanche of France (1253–1323) , French princess
- Blanche of France (around 1282–1305), wife of Rudolf III. of Habsburg
- Blanche of Lancaster (1341 or 1345-1368), Duchess of Lancaster
- Blanche of Namur (around 1320–1363), queen of Sweden and Norway
Blanche is the family name of the following people:
- August Theodor Blanche (1811–1868), Swedish writer
- Claire Blanche-Benveniste (1935–2010), French linguist and romance scholar
- Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941–2010), leader of the far-right South African Boer group, Afrikaner Resistance Movement
- Francis Blanche (1921–1974), French actor
- Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942), French painter
- René Blanche (* 1982), German theater director
- Roland Blanche (1943–1999), French actor
Blanche is the intermediate name of:
- Bartolomeo Blanche Espejo (1879–1970), Chilean politician and military officer
Blanche is part of the name of the following geographical objects:
- Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey , mountain in Italy
- Blanche-Église , commune in the Moselle department in France
- Blanche Garde , crusader castle on Tell es-Safi
- Canton of Brest-Cavale-Blanche-Bohars-Guilers , Canton in Brittany
- Château La Tour Blanche , winery in the commune of Bommes (Bordeaux)
- Dent Blanche , mountain peak in the Valais Alps
- Tête Blanche , mountain peak in the Valais Alps
- La Roche-Blanche , French commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
- La Roche-Blanche , French commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region
- Pointe Blanche , headland in Antarctica
- Vallée Blanche , winter sports area in France (see also Vallée Blanche small cabin lift )
- William and Blanche Brooks House , residence of William A. Brooks and his wife Blanche in Forney, Texas
- Places in the United States:
Blanche is part of the name of the following grape varieties:
- Clairette Blanche , white grape variety from Provence, Rhône and Languedoc
- Folle Blanche , white Charente grape variety
- Humagne Blanche , autochthonous white grape variety from the Swiss canton of Valais
- Marsanne blanche , white grape variety from the northern Rhône valley
- Mondeuse Blanche , autochthonous grape variety of the Savoy region
- Oeillade Blanche , autochthonous white grape variety of Provence
Blanche is part of the name of:
- La dame blanche , a French opera by François-Adrien Boïeldieu
- Opération blanche , a special strategy for exercising subscription rights in the context of capital increases
- The Secret of Madame Blanche , 1933 American film
See also:
