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4 unusual facts about Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan


César Phoebus d'Albret, Count of Miossens

He was also a cousin of the marquise de Montespan.

Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

Françoise-Athénaïs, Marchioness of Montespan

Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine

Louise Françoise de Bourbon (4 December 1707 – 19 August 1743) was a grand daughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, better known as Madame de Montespan.

Sack-back gown

However people would comment: "Madame de Montespan has put on her robe battante, therefore she must be pregnant.".


Aglaé de Polignac

Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac (7 May 1768 – 30 March 1803) was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the favourite and confidante of Marie Antoinette, and her husband, the 1st duc de Polignac.

Aicardi–Goutières syndrome

In 1984, Jean Aicardi and Francoise Goutieres described eight children from five families presenting with severe early onset encephalopathy.

Alexandre Deschapelles

His parents were Louis Gatien Le Breton Comte des Chapelles, born in New Orleans (Louisiana) in 1741, and Marie Françoise Geneviève d'Hémeric des Cartouzières from Béziers in the south of France.

Alphonse Boudard

1965: La Métamorphose des cloportes (The Metamorphosis of woodlice) (adaptation and dialogue with Michel Audiard and Albert Simonin) - Director: Pierre Granier Deferre, with Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Irina Demick, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Geret Maurice Biraud, Francoise Rosay

Anatomy of a Marriage

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (Françoise ou La vie conjugale) tells the story from the man's point of view.

André de Foix

His brothers Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec and Thomas, lord of Lescun, were also promoted to high positions in the military by the King, by the influence of Françoise.

Anne de Guigné

Anne's maternal grandmother Francoise Eulalie Marie Madeleine de Burbon-Busset was a direct descendant of the sixth son of King Louis IX of France, Robert, Count of Clermont.

Anne Lascaris

Honorat II of Savoy (1509-20 September 1580), count of Villars, marshal of France in 1571, married Françoise de Foix

Anouk

Anouk Aimée (b. 1932 as Françoise Sorya Dreyfus), pseudonym of a French film actress

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley

Lord Ashley's second wife was the French-born Françoise Soulier, daughter of Georges Soulier of Caudebec-en-Caux, France.

Béatrix de Cusance

The bride was Marie Louise d'Aspremont (1652–1692), the eighteen-year-old daughter of Charles d'Aspremont-Lynden, Count of Rekem, and Marie Françoise de Mailly.

Camille, Prince of Marsan

She was the daughter of Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, a man of letter and his wife Hélène Françoise Angélique Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1715–1781), herself a daughter of Jérôme Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain.

Claudine Françoise Mignot

Claudine Françoise Mignot commonly called Marie (20 January 1624 – 30 November 1711), French adventuress, was born near Grenoble, at Meylan.

Domaine of Villarceaux

Françoise Chandernagor, L’allée du roi : souvenirs de Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, épouse du Roi de France, Paris, Julliard, 1995 ISBN 2-266-06787-7

Duke of Gesvres

The title of Baron of Gesvres first came to the Potier family with the marriage of Jacques Potier to Françoise Cueillette,daughter of Jean, seigneur de Freschines et de Gesvres.

Éditions Julliard

They sought out and published new talents, such as Lydie Salvayre and Régine Detambel, but also the great names of Éditions Julliard, like Françoise Sagan.

Émilie Pellapra

Émilie Pellapra (11 November 1806 – 22 May 1871), comtesse de Brigode, princesse de Chimay, was the daughter of Françoise-Marie LeRoy and possibly Napoleon I of France.

Émilie Louise Marie Françoise Joséphine Pellapra was born in Lyon on November 11, 1806, the daughter of Madame Pellapra, née Françoise-Marie LeRoy, herself the wife of a rich financier named Henri (de) Pellapra.

Feminist Improvising Group

Dutch trombonist Annemarie Roelofs, English singer Frankie Armstrong, Dutch woodwind player Angèle Veltmeijer, and French saxophonist and guitarist Françoise Dupety also played intermittently with the group.

Françoise Blanchard

Françoise worked again with Rollin in Les Trottoirs De Bangkok (The Sidewalks Of Bangkok), a film which she had a lot of fun making, and she appeared in his newest film production La Nuit Des Horloges (The Night of Clocks) opposite Ovidie.

Françoise de Clossey

Françoise de Clossey has attended the University of Montreal, the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome and the MusicaRiva Festival.

Françoise de Clossey has to her credit firsts, among which are the world premiere of a work of Henryk Górecki, the first North American performances of works by Salvatore Sciarrino and Sofia Gubaidulina, and the first worldwide perrformances of the Italian composers Frisina and Sofianopulo.

Françoise de Dreux

Françoise de Dreux was married to a member of the Paris Parlement and cousin of two judges in the Poison Affair.

Françoise Lebrun

She also worked for, amongst others, Paul Vecchiali, Marguerite Duras and Lucas Belvaux, and is the subject of the documentary Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières (2008).

Francoise Morechand-Nagataki

Francoise Morechand-Nagataki (born 1935) is a French TV personality active in Japan.

Françoise Nielly

Françoise uses knives to paint her artwork as she seems to prefer the thick, clean brushstrokes created by them.

Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan

She had a minor role in Chiho Saito and Kunihiko Ikuhara's manga series S to M no Sekai (2001), which was published in English as The World Exists For Me (2005).

At the age of twenty, Françoise-Athénaïs became a maid-of-honour to the king's sister-in-law, Princess Henrietta Anne of England, who was known at court by the traditional honorific of Madame.

Françoise-Louise de Warens

She was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism.

Joseph Connors

Connors married Françoise Gabrielle Germaine Moison in 1969 in Gagny, France; they have two children, Geneviève (b. 1975) and Thomas (b. 1978).

Le Sang noir

Le Sang noir was made into a TV film in 2006, directed by Peter Kassovitz and produced by BFC productions (Françoise Castro) and France 3.

Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine

Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 31 March 1670 - Sceaux, 14 May 1736) was a legitimised son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan.

Mademoiselle de Chartres

Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698–1743) second daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Françoise-Marie de Bourbon

Mademoiselle de Condé

Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon (1690-1760) daughter of Louis, Prince of Condé, Duke of Bourbon and Louise Françoise de Bourbon.

Mademoiselle de Montpensier

Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1709-1742) daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, wife of Louis I of Spain.

Mademoiselle de Valois

Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700–1761) daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Françoise Marie de Bourbon

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Dunford suggests he was probably from the Pau area in southernmost France and a Protestant, that his first name was "Jean" and that he had two daughters named Brigide and Françoise.

Pierre-Dominique Bazaine

He was born 13 January 1786, in the town of Scy-sur-Moselle, son of Pierre Bazaine (1760-1832) and Francoise Gilbert.

Richard Niederbacher

Currently he works for a regional football association and used to be co-trainer of Gleisdorf, where he lives together with his wife (who is former Miss Belgium Françoise Bostoen) and two kids.

Rochefort, Charente-Maritime

The Young Girls of Rochefort film directed by Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, and Gene Kelly with music composed by Michel Legrand

Vincent Monteil

This tenure gave him the opportunity to work with conductors such as Friedemann Layer, Maurizio Arena, Richard Bradshaw, Woldemar Nelsson and Donato Renzetti, and singers such as Roberto Alagna, José van Dam, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Leontina Vaduva, Nuccia Focile, Françoise Pollet, and Catherine Malfitano.

William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

William Henry was the son of Prince Walrad of Nassau-Usingen and his wife, Catherine Françoise, comtesse de Croÿ-Roeulx

Yonka

Today, Laboratoires Multaler, the parent company of YON-KA brand, remains located in the Paris region, Colombes led by founders' daughters and nieces - Françoise and Catherine Mühlethaler.


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