Madame Adelaide Bonfamille

Madame Adelaide Bonfamille is the minor protagonists from Disney's 1970 hit The Aristocats. She is a wealthy, elderly woman who is the owner of Duchess and her kittens. She is voiced by Hermione Baddeley who portrayed Ellen in the 1964 musical hit Mary Poppins.

Background
Madame Bonfamille, often simply called Madame, is an elderly, wealthy woman, who apparently was a famous opera singer at one point. She is very kind, and generous. At the time of the film, however, she had no living relatives, thus she doted on her cats. Her other friends included her lawyer Georges Hautcourt and her butler Edgar Balthazar.

Madame has white hair, usually put up in a bun, and wears a violet and red dress.

The Aristocats
At the beginning of the film, she is seen in her carriage, driven by Edgar, with her cats. Upon returning home, it is revealed that she is expecting her lawyer and long time friend, Georges to come to handle some business matters. After he arrives, she tells Georges that she wants to make out her will. She notes that she has no living relatives, which Georges interprets to mean that she is leaving the fortune to Edgar. Madame corrects him, revealing her plan to leave the fortune to Duchess and the kittens. Edgar is to care for the cats, and upon their death, he will then inherit the vast fortune himself. Unknown to Georges and Madame, Edgar has overheard the plan through the pipes. Fearful that he will be dead before he can inherit, he kidnapps the cats and drops them off in the French countryside. Madame is noticably saddened by the cats disappearance, but does not know that Edgar kidnapped them.

Much later, Madame thinks she has heard the kittens, and asks Edgar to check the door. Unknown to her, Edgar has heard the kittens earlier, and had trapped them in an old oven, until he could get rid of them again. However, the cats are saved thanks to the interference of O' Malley and his alley cat friends. At the film's close, it is revealed that Madame has adopted O'Malley, citing the need for a man around the house. While taking a portrait of the cats, she laments that Edgar left, ironically thinking that he wouldn't have left had he known about the will. Per her instructions, Edgar is written out of the will. Instead, Madame begins a foundation that opens up her home for the alley cats of Paris, which is revealed to already include Scat Cat and his gang of alley cats.