Madame Adelaide Bonfamile

Madame Adelaide Bonfamile, called also simply Madame, is the overarching protagonist of Disney's 20th full-length animated feature film .
She is a wealthy, elderly woman who is the owner of Duchess and her kittens and a former opera singer until her retirement.
She was voiced by the late , who also played Auntie Shrew in The Secret of NIMH.
==Physical Appearance==
Madame is an elderly lady with long silvery-white hair, usually done up in a Gibson Girl-style bun (except when sleeping, where it extends below her shoulders, although she wears a nightcap while sleeping), and wears a red purple Edwardian era.
==Personality==
Madame is a very polite, calm, kind and even slightly vain woman, though not in bad taste. She loves Duchess and the kittens very much, as if they were her own family, considering them the greatest she could possess and she is unaware of Edgar's plans. She also loves dancing with her friend and lawyer, George Hightower. She has a little bit of wit.
==History==
Madame is first seen in a carriage with Duchess and her kittens and Edgar pulling Frou-Frou home, she tells Marie that when she grows up she will be as beautiful as her mother. She feeds Frou-Frou and politely declines Edgar's offer to help her, then warns him that his solicitor George Hautecourt must come and when he arrives they dance a bit together and then write the will, with Madame wanting to give her inheritance first to his cats and then to Edgar. After Duchess and the kittens are gone, she becomes extremely sad, having even had a nightmare during the night about it. Then she towards the end she hears them but Edgar locks them in the oven.
At the end of the film, she finds happiness again and agrees to let O'Malley into the family. It seems that Madame never learns that Edgar was responsible for the disappearance of her cats, but she seems to be happy for him and thinks that if he "had known about the will" he would not have left and finally makes his home a “retirement home” for all the stray cats in Paris.
===Gallery===
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==Trivia==
*The name "Bonfamille" is derived from the French phrase for "good family" ("bon" being the masculine word for "good" and "famille" meaning "family," though "famille" is feminine, so the right way would have been "bonne famille").
*Madame Adelaide mentions Marie's name and Toulouse's name both just once, but she never mentions Berlioz's name. She mostly just refers to all 3 of them as her kittens.
*Adelaide bears a striking resemblance to Lady Tremaine (who has her own cat on whom she dotes), though Adelaide is a morally good and benevolent character.
*While welcoming Thomas into the family, Adelaide expresses a hope that he and Duchess will have kittens together and make their family a little bigger.
*Adelaide apparently never discovered why her cats disappeared, Edgar’s true intentions, or why he left.
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