April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon (French: [madam də mɛ̃t(ə)nɔ̃] ), was a French noblewoman and the second...

Maintenon (French pronunciation: [mɛ̃tənɔ̃]) is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located 63.5 km (39.5 mi) southwest of the...

Château de Maintenon (French pronunciation: [ʃato də mɛ̃tnɔ̃]) is a château, developed from the original castle, situated in the commune of Maintenon in the...

Maintenon (foaled 1903 in France) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Gaston Dreyfus at his Haras du Perray in Les Bréviaires, Yvelines...

the request of his second secret wife, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, who wanted a school for girls from impoverished noble families. The establishment...

Deauville: Turenne (1904), Maintenon (1906) Grand Prix de Paris: Northeast (1908), Brumelli (1917) Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud: Maintenon (1906), Sea Sick (1908)...

Dual monarchy of England and France) Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, who secretly married Louis XIV in 1683, was never publicly acknowledged...

devoted paragraphs to her: she is mentioned in the memoirs of Madame de Maintenon, the Grande Mademoiselle, Madame de Montespan, Duke of Saint-Simon, Voltaire...

(2016) and The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020). Walker portrayed Madame de Maintenon in series two and three of the TV series Versailles. She also appeared...

the crown. The confessor united his influence with that of Madame de Maintenon to induce the king to abandon his liaison with Madame de Montespan. More...

June 1919 and was named Duchess of Ayen. They lived at the Château de Maintenon and had two children; a daughter, Geneviève Hélène Anne Marie Yolande...

of Madame de Maintenon, she was well aware of the king's secret illegitimate children with Montespan, who were taken care of by Maintenon. In 1672, she...

de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, was published by Bloomsbury in July 2008. It is a biography of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, who...

Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), teacher and wife of King Louis XIV Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné (1684–1739), niece and heir of Madame de Maintenon Charles...

pupil at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, the girls' school Madame de Maintenon had founded in 1684 in Saint-Cyr, in the vicinity of Versailles. On 6...

Baroness Francoise Charlotte Amable d'Aubigne-Maintenon, Duchess of Noailles (5 May 1684 – 6 October 1739) was a French aristocrat, the wife of Adrien...

persecution of the Protestants was Louis XIV's pious second wife, Madame de Maintenon, who was thought to have urged Louis to revoke Henry IV's edict. There...

governess of Montespan's illegitimate children by the king, Madame de Maintenon, came to supplant her mistress in the king's affections. At first she...

Aéroports de Paris. King Louis XIV of France, at the request of Madame de Maintenon, founded Maison royale de Saint-Louis, an institute for poor young ladies...

After 1700, with the support of Louis's pious secret wife Madame de Maintenon, the king was persuaded to change his fiscal policy. Though willing enough...

Academie de Sciences and visited the parliament, the Sorbonne and Madame Maintenon. Via the Palace of Saint-Cloud, the Grand Trianon at Versailles, Fontainebleau...

under glass, they were still a luxurious delicacy in 1696, when Mme de Maintenon and Mme de Sevigné each reported that they were "a fashion, a fury".[clarification...

Louis d'Angennes, seigneur de Maintenon (c. 1536 –c. 1610) was a French noble, diplomat, governor and soldier during the French Wars of Religion. The...

Spouse(s) Infanta María Teresa of Spain 3 Françoise d'Aubigné, Marchioness of Maintenon Children Louis, Dauphin of France Princess Anne Élisabeth Princess Marie...

Madame de Maintenon. To the King, she explained frankly and freely: "If I hadn't loved you, then I would not have hated Madame de Maintenon so much, precisely...

In 1509, he purchased the old castle in Maintenon, and rebuilt it, transforming it into the Château de Maintenon. Later, it was remade into a fashionable...

and published by Hetzel. In 1854 Lavallée began to publish Madame de Maintenon's works, supplemented with his commentaries and notes. He married Louise...

Spouse(s) Infanta María Teresa of Spain 3 Françoise d'Aubigné, Marchioness of Maintenon Children Louis, Dauphin of France Princess Anne Élisabeth Princess Marie...

Soon after his return to Paris, the publication of his Mémoires de la Maintenon brought him again for a year in jail (September 1757). Voltaire seems...

completed. Passing through the gardens of the château de Maintenon, purchased by Madame de Maintenon in 1675, its arches ranging in three colossal tiers,...