Françoise-Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours (6 August 1644 – 6 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the mistress of King...
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La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his...
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de Polignac, who became Prime Minister for Charles X (the former comte d'Artois) in 1829. She was also the mother of Aglaé de Polignac, duchesse de Guiche...
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School of Fontainebleau painting, Portrait présumé de Gabrielle d'Estrées et de sa sœur la duchesse de Villars (Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées...
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king (1633). Secret exchanges of correspondence with Spain carried out by Anne of Austria were unmasked in 1637, requiring the Duchesse de Chevreuse to...
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Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry (redirect from Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de Berry)
Caroline de Bourbon (1798–1870) at Wikimedia Commons Bern, Stéphane (29 September 2020). Secrets d'histoire - La duchesse de Berry, une rebelle chez les Bourbons...
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Madame de Maintenon, Louis XIV's secret wife since October 1683, the enthusiastic duchesse du Maine created a little court at the Château de Sceaux,...
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The Marriage of Figaro (French: La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written...
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In Search of Lost Time (redirect from Duchesse de Guermantes)
Palamède, Baron de Charlus: An aristocratic, decadent aesthete with many antisocial habits. Model is Robert de Montesquiou. Oriane, Duchesse de Guermantes:...
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Duchess of Langeais (La Duchesse de Langeais, 1834) The Girl with the Golden Eyes (La fille aux yeux d'or, 1835) Old Goriot (le Père Goriot, 1835) César...
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the secret spouse of Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741), daughter of Monsieur le Duc and Madame la Duchesse, daughter of Madame de Montespan. Louis de Melun...
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jeweller, followed by the Duchesse de Arenberg and Mme. de Souza, the Portuguese ambassadress, who passed stories of M. Le Brun's habits as a spendthrift...
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Fabio. "Bref crayon généalogique de S.A.R. la Princesse Marie-Marguerite, Duchesse d'Anjou, née Vargas Santaella", Le Lien Légitimiste, n. 16, 2007. Opfell...
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Gabrielle d'Estrées (redirect from Gabrielle d'Estrées, Duchesse de Beaufort)
Official site of the Louvre Museum - Portrait présumé de Gabrielle d'Estrées et de sa sœur la duchesse de Villars Williams, Hannah (10 July 2019). "The Meaning...
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d’Orléans Audrey Fleurot: la duchesse de Longueville Rudi Rosenberg: le prince de Condé, ex-duc d’Enghien Xavier de Guillebon: La Rochefoucauld Samuel Theis:...
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Don Quixote (redirect from The History of Don Quixote de le Mancha)
full title being The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally published in two parts, in...
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The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (redirect from Le Vicomte de Bragelonne)
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard [lə vikɔ̃t də bʁaʒəlɔn u diz‿ɑ̃ ply taʁ]) is a novel by...
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Père Goriot (redirect from Le pere Goriot)
Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac...
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Poitiers – et les autres liaisons de l'Abbé de Vauréal avec la Maréchale de Villars, la Duchesse de Gontaut, etc. ». Réimpression de l'édition de Paris, 1863–1868...
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La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin, is an...
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Le Médecin de campagne (1833) Ferragus, chef des Dévorants (1833) La Duchesse de Langeais (1834) La Recherche de l'absolu (1834) Séraphîta (1834) Le Père...
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Le Lys dans la Vallée (English: The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac...
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Duchess of La Vallière and of Vaujours. Marie-Anne de La Blaume Le Blanc de la Vallière was born 2 October 1666 in the Castle of Vincennes in secret to an...
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Memoirs of St Simon, Madame de Genlis, the duchesse d'Abrantes and Mme de Levis; G Strenger, "La Société de la marquise de Montesson," in the Nouvelle...
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1831: Études historiques. 1833: Mémoires sur la captivité de Madame la duchesse de Berry. 1844: La Vie de Rancé. 1848–50: Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe. "Progress...
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Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (French pronunciation: [maʁi an də maji nɛl]; 5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of...
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the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière. During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine, at the Château de Sceaux, was...
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marriage, Marie Victoire, marquise de Gondrin, was a dame du palais to the king's granddaughter-in-law, the duchesse de Bourgogne, future Dauphine of France...
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Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Comédie humaine novel sequence. The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who...
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The Barber of Seville (play) (redirect from Le Barbier de Seville)
The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with...
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