Maintenon

[ mantuh-nawn ]

noun

1. Marquise de Françoise d'Aubigné, 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.

Maintenon

/ mɛ̃tnɔ̃ /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Madame de Maintenon retird to St. Cyr, and there she always dwelt till she died.

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Such was the man to whom the best days of Madame de Maintenon were devoted; and she shared his confidence to the last.

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This placed Madame de Maintenon--for she went by this title--in a false position.

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It was deemed by Madame de Maintenon a means of grace to the King,--for in her way she always sought his conversion.

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The persecution of the Protestants, however, partially reveals the narrow intolerance of Madame de Maintenon.

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