==History==Some sources, including the "New Oxford American Dictionary", say madeleines may have been named for a 19th-century pastry cook, Madeleine Paulmier, but other sources have it that Madeleine Paulmier was a cook in the 18th century for Stanisław Leszczyński, whose son-in-law, Louis XV of France, named them for her.
Altre fonti riportano Madeleine Paulmier come una cuoca vissuta nel XVIII secolo che aveva lavorato per Stanisław Leszczyński, il cui genero, Luigi XV di Francia, scelse il nome dei dolcetti in onore a lei.