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Maintenon
[ mantuh-nawn ]
noun
- Marquise de Françoise d'Aubigné, 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
Maintenon
/ ɛ̃ٲɔ̃ /
noun
- Maintenon, Marquise de16351719FFrenchMISC: wife of Louis XIV Marquise de, title of Françoise d'Aubigné. 1635–1719, the mistress and, from about 1685, second wife of Louis XIV
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"And what did he say?" exclaimed Madame de Maintenon, with an eagerness that she could not master.
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"But now, when you will, Charles, I am ready to go on; we may soon reach Maintenon."
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The Secret Correspondence of Madame de Maintenon with the Princess des Ursins, from the original manuscripts in the possession of the Duke of Choiseul.
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Madame De Maintenon, his married mistress, hideously caricatured, follows.
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Ninon had "played politics" just once—and with far-reaching results to history; as De Maintenon's future influence over her husband was to prove.
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