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unusual facts about Marquise


Boulogne–Calais railway

The line opened on 7 January 1867 with railway stations at Wimille, Marquise, Caffiers and St Pierre.


Abel François Poisson

1764-1781: Château de Menars in Menars (Loir-et-Cher), inherited from his sister, the marquise de Pompadour.

André Chénier

Two obscure agents of the Committee of Public Safety (one of them named Nicolas Guénot) were in search of a marquise who had fled, but an unknown stranger was found in the house and arrested on suspicion of being the aristocrat they were searching for.

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine, at the Château de Sceaux, was amusing itself with frivolities, and when that of the Duc d’Orléans, at the Palais-Royal, was devoting itself to debauchery, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert passed for the temple of propriety and good taste, in a reaction against the cynicism and vulgarity of the time.

Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet

Occasionally, in spring and summer, the marquis and marquise de Rambouillet would entertain the habitués of their Parisian residence in the château de Rambouillet.

In homage to the Marquise de Rambouillet, the city of Rambouillet has named its Junior High School Collège Catherine de Vivonne.

Château de Bénouville

It was designed in 1769 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built in 1770-74 and 1776-80 at the request of Hyppolite-François Sanguin, marquis of Livry (1715–1789) and his marquise Thérèse Bonne Gillain de Bénouville, heiress of the property.

Château de Rully

Revolutionary era: a certificate of the commune of Rully, in connection with the marquise of Montessus, held for some time in the prison of Chalon, attests that les malheureux ont toujours trouvé en elle une mère, l'opprimé un soutien (the unhappy always found in it a mother, the oppressed support)

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

Dutch nobility

Marquise (This title has become extinct in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.)

Eight Carat

She produced five individual Group One winners, including Octagonal, Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and (Our) Marquise who had 28 stakes wins between them.

Émilie du Châtelet

A main-belt minor planet and a crater on Venus have been named in her honor, and she is the subject of two plays: Legacy of Light by Karen Zacarías and Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson.

Esperanza Aguirre

Aguirre married in Madrid, on 1 January 1974, Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 16th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, elder son of Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, and his wife Beatriz Valdés, 4th Marquise of Casa Valdés.

François-Antoine Devaux

Devaux made several trips to Paris in the entourage of a new patron, Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon, marquise de Boufflers, who was the mistress of King-Duke Stanislas and had many other lovers, although Devaux was not one of them.

Heinrich von Kleist

The Earthquake in Chile (Das Erdbeben in Chili) and St. Cecilia, or the Power of Music (Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik) are also fine examples of Kleist's story telling as is The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O.).

Henri, Duke of Montpensier

Henri was born at Mézières, the son of François de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, and of his wife Renée d'Anjou, marquise de Mézières.

Henrietta Gordon

The marquise, however, pleading poverty as an excuse, took no step to have the child brought to Paris, as Blakhal desired she should be; and so he applied to Anne of Austria, and obtained from her a letter, under the joint sign-manual of herself and the king, praying the Marquis of Huntly, who had assumed the guardianship of Henrietta (with the intention of having her educated in the Protestant faith), to permit Blakhal to escort her to France.

John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach

John Christian was married with Marie Anne Henriëtte Leopoldine de La Tour d'Auvergne, marquise of Bergen op Zoom and a grandniece of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne.

Laura Margherita Mazzarini

Mazzarini lived with the rest of the family, first at Aix-en-Provence, then in the palace of her brother and finally settled at the court of Queen Anne of Austria, in the apartment of the Marquise de La Rochefoucauld.

Lauren Gunderson

Gunderson's play Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, about the real-life 18th century physicist Émilie du Châtelet was commissioned and developed at South Coast Repertory as part of their 2008 Pacific Playwrights Festival directed by Kate Whorisky.

Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ

The Marquise has featured in several novels about the French Royal family, including Trianon and Madame Royale by Elena Maria Vidal, Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy and the Marie Antoinette romances by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Maîtresse-en-titre

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (better known as Madame de Pompadour) (1721–1764), marquise de Pompadour

Margarita Salas

On 11 July 2008, Salas was raised into the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the hereditary title of Marquesa de Canero (English: Marquise of Canero).

Margarita Salas Falgueras, 1st Marquise of Canero (born 1938), commonly known as Margarita Salas, is a well-known Spanish scientist in the fields of Biochemistry, and Molecular genetics.

Natalie Victurnienne, Marchioness of Rougé

Nathalie-Victurnienne-Delphine de Rochechouart de Mortemart (5 January 1759, Paris – 25 December 1828), later marquise de Rougé, was a sister of Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart, 9th Duke of Mortemart, and by marriage a member of the House of Rougé, a noble family of Breton origin.

Philippe Charles d'Arenberg

He married in 1684 Marie-Henriette d'Alcaretto, marquise of Grana and Savona, Italy.

Pompadour

Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV

Serafín María de Sotto, 3rd Count of Clonard

Elder son of Raimundo de Sotto, 2nd Count of Clonard and Ramona Abbach, 4th Marquise of la Granada, he was of Irish patrilineal descent, a descendant of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley.

The Golden Coach

The Viceroy hints of his intention to give the coach to his mistress, the Marquise, but has decided to pay for it with public funds, since he plans to use it to overawe the populace and flatter the local nobility, who enthusiastically look forward to taking turns parading in it.

Zechs Marquise

In May Zechs Marquise signed on to the management roster at Sargent House and released Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare on LP/CD/digital in August of that year through Rodriguez-Lopez Productions.


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