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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] ⓘ ), was a French noblewoman and the second wife of Louis XIV of France from 1683 until his death in 1715. Although she was never considered queen of France, as the marriage ...
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Apr 11, 2024 · spouse Louis XIV. Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (baptized Nov. 28, 1635, Niort, Poitou, France—died April 15, 1719, Saint-Cyr) was the second wife and untitled queen of King Louis XIV of France. She encouraged an atmosphere of dignity and piety at court and founded an educational institution for poor girls at Saint-Cyr (1686).
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Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635—1719) The second wife of King Louis XIV of France, Madame de Maintenon has long fascinated historians and novelists by her improbable life. Born into an impoverished, criminal family, Maintenon conquered salon society as the wife of the poet Paul Scarron. During her salon years, she studied ...
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Consult the legal notices. Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, first appeared at Versailles in the 1670s. Born in 1635 in the prison at Niort, where her father was imprisoned for debt, she was orphaned in 1647 and in 1652 married the poet Paul Scarron, who was renowned as a master of the burlesque. Upon his death in 1660, Scarron ...
For the full article, see Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon . Françoise d’Aubigné, marchioness de Maintenon, known as Madame de Maintenon, (baptized Nov. 28, 1635, Niort, Poitou, France—died April 15, 1719, Saint-Cyr), Second wife of Louis XIV of France. After enduring an impoverished childhood, she married the poet Paul ...
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, Lettres. It is doubtful that anyone in the 17th century could have predicted that a girl who was born in extraordinary and somewhat shameful surroundings would become the wife of the most powerful king in Europe. Indeed, the birth of Françoise d'Aubigné on November 27, 1635, was far from auspicious.
Nov 27, 2015 · A tale of two Françoises: Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719) When little Françoise d’Aubigné came into the world on 27 November 1635, her future seemed unlikely to be dazzling. True, her paternal grandfather was the distinguished Huguenot poet and patriot Agrippa d’Aubigné, but his son Constant had proved a sore disappointment, and had ...
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