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Maintenon
[ mantuh-nawn ]
noun
- Marquise de Françoise d'Aubigné, 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
Maintenon
/ mɛ̃tnɔ̃ /
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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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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