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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for The Marriage of Figaro (play)
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for La Comédie humaine
    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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  • Thumbnail for Gabrielle d'Estrées
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
    The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard [ 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: [ 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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  • Thumbnail for Honoré de Balzac
    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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  • Thumbnail for François-René de Chateaubriand
    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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  • Thumbnail for Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle
    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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  • Thumbnail for The Barber of Seville (play)
    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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