Nightly News | February 22, 2012
Au revoir, Mademoiselle!
The French government is doing away with ‘mademoiselle’ on official documents. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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>>> it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight.
>> as chronicled in " beauty and the beast " as taught in french class, a married woman is madam a single woman is mademoiselle. not for long. the french government is doing away with mademoiselle on official documents. it's not unlike the rise of the alternate title ms. in the united states which doesn't indicate marital status . men are called monsieur which like mister here doesn't indicate marital status .