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    Françoise d'Aubigné (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon (French: [madam də mɛ̃t(ə)nɔ̃]...
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    The Château de Maintenon is a château, developed from the original castle, situated in the commune of Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir département of France...
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    Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam...
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    Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles. She was the niece of Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, and her heiress. Françoise Charlotte was...
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    Duke of Maine. Françoise Marie was born in 1677 at the Château de Maintenon, owned since 1674 by Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, the governess...
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    (fictionalized memoirs of Madam de Maintenon - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV, Françoise Chandernagor wrote six novels...
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    Maintenon Françoise-Marie de Bourbon - youngest daughter of Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV, born here in 1677 Maintenon is served by Maintenon station...
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  • propagandist, and chronicler Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), teacher and wife of King Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné (1684–1739)...
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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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  • (1937–2006), French archaeologist Françoise d'Amboise (1427–1485), Carmelite nun Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), morganatic second...
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    Louis de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his brother. He was the son of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon. He...
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    Louise Françoise de Bourbon (4 December 1707 – 19 August 1743) was a granddaughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart...
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    protector at court, and kept attending court until her death. Veronica Buckley: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, 2010...
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  • intimate friend of Madame de Maintenon, the King's morganatic second wife. Marie Françoise was the eldest daughter of Count Charles de Brancas (1618-1681) and...
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    France. (See also: Dual monarchy of England and France) Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, who secretly married Louis XIV in 1683, was never publicly...
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    King Louis XIV at the request of his second secret wife, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, who wanted a school for girls from impoverished noble...
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    She was a great-granddaughter of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon. In 1795, the Marquise de LaFayette was imprisoned and facing...
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  • rumoured that Madame de Montespan had arranged it to disturb the relationship between the king and Madame de Maintenon. Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Mémoires...
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    Madame de Montespan, or extreme for Madame de Maintenon could not dull. She was replaced as head of the abbey by her niece, Louise-Françoise de Mortemart...
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    John Law. Louise Françoise was born in Tournai on 1 June 1673 while her parents, King Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart were...
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  • resulted from a plot devised by Françoise de Soissan to persuade Louis XIV to make his marriage to the Marquise de Maintenon public. There is no evidence...
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  • 1673, and in 1674, he sold the Maintenon estate to Françoise d'Aubigné, who was granted the title of Marquise de Maintenon by King Louis in 1675. After...
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    her. She had a cordial relationship to Madame de Maintenon. Her husband was the lover of Françoise de Dreux who, during the Affair of the Poisons (1679–82)...
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    1698, as comte d'Ayen, he married Françoise Charlotte Amable d'Aubigné, niece and beneficiary of the marquise de Maintenon, and by her had six children, 4...
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  • Françoise d'Aubigné, the future Marquise de Maintenon and second wife of King Louis XIV. She tried to convert Françoise to the Calvinist Reformed Church of...
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    4 July 1610. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné, who later became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV of France...
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    Cardinal de Noailles, raised the Noailles family to its greatest fame. A grandson married Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon. Chisholm...
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    Madame de Maintenon after a Mass celebrated by Père la Chaise, the king's confessor, and in the presence of only three witnesses, the Marquis de Montchevreuil...
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    Alexandre de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs...
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    longtime established mistress Marquise de Montespan and turning to the governess of their children, Madame de Maintenon. Infatuated by the beauty of the young...
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