Carte blanche
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Carte blanche (French for blank or white card) or its Spanish language variant, carta blanca, may refer to:
- Blank cheque, a cheque that has no numerical value entered, but is already signed
- Full Powers, the authority of a person to sign a treaty or convention on behalf of a sovereign state
- A NATO exercise in 1955 that shocked observers by the projection of casualties from nuclear weapons in the allied Federal Republic of Germany
Carte Blanche may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
Artwork
- Carte Blanche, a 1965 painting by René Magritte
Dance
- Carte Blanche (Norwegian dance company), the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, based in Bergen, Norway
Fictional entities
- Yvette Carte-Blanche, a fictional character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
Games
- Carte Blanche: First Episode - For a Fistful of Teeth, a 2006 PC videogame released by Absurdus
Literature
- Carte Blanche (novel), a 2011 James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver
- Carte Blanche, a novel by Marcos Arnold
Music
Groups
Albums
Songs
- "Carte Blanche", a 1999 trance song by Veracocha
- "Carte Blanche", a song from Shock Treatment (1981), the follow-up film to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Television
- Carte Blanche (TV series), an investigative journalism show produced by Combined Artists and aired on M-Net
- "Carte Blanche", an episode from the FX TV show, The Shield
Beverages
- Carta Blanca, a Mexican beer
- Carte Blanche, a beverage by the Louis Roederer champagne producer
Credit cards
- Carte Blanche (credit card) travel and entertainment card, part of the Diners Club charge card portfolio
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