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unusual facts about Madame de Maintenon



Alexander Rumyantsev

His wife survived him by 40 years, and entertained Saint Petersburg society with the stories of her acquaintance with Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, and the Duke of Marlborough.

Château de Maintenon

1674: Madame de Maintenon (1635–1719) bought the marquisate from the previous;

It is best known as being the private residence of the second spouse of Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon.

Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy

He wrote articles for the Année littéraire and other magazines; he edited the Selected Works (1786) of Dorat, the Mémoires secrets sur les règnes de Louis XIV et de Louis XV (1790), by Duclos, the letters of Madame de Maintenon (1800), and other publications.

Jean Philippe d'Orléans

Amable Angélique was the daughter of Amable Gabrielle de Noailles (18 February 1706 - 16 September 1742) who was in turn the daughter of Adrien Maurice de Noialles and Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon.

Jean Racine

When at last he returned to the theatre, it was at the request of Madame de Maintenon, morganatic second wife of King Louis XIV, with the moral fables, Esther (1689) and Athalie (1691), both of which were based on Old Testament stories and intended for performance by the pupils of the school of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis in Saint-Cyr (a commune neighboring Versailles, and now known as "Saint-Cyr l'École").

Saint-Cyr-l'École

King Louis XIV of France, at the request of Madame de Maintenon, founded Maison royale de Saint-Louis, an institute for young ladies, which later became a military hospital.


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The King's Daughters

In March 1685, Louis XIV’s final wife Madame de Maintenon wishes to set up a boarding school for young daughters of noble families that have fallen on hard times, the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school where girls receive a pious but liberal education.