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Chapters: Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de Montespan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marchioness of Montespan (5 October 1641 27 May 1707), better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maitresse en titre of Louis XIV of France. Born into one of the oldest noble families of France, the House of Rochechouart, Madame de Montespan was called by some the true Queen of France during her romantic relationship with Louis XIV due to the pervasiveness of her influence at court during that time.. Her so-called "reign" lasted from around 1667, when she first danced with Louis XIV at a ball hosted by the king's younger brother, Monsieur, at the Louvre, until her alleged involvement in the notorious Affaire des Poisons in the late 1670s to 1680's. Her immediate contemporary was Barbara Villiers. She is an ancestress of several royal houses in Europe, including those of Spain, Italy, Bulgaria and Portugal. Francoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart was born on 5 October 1641 and baptised the same day at the Chateau of Lussac-les-Chateaux in today's Vienne department, in the Poitou-Charentes region in France, Francoise (as a precieuse, she later adopted the name "Athenais"), Mlle de Tonnay-Charente, possessed the blood of two of the oldest noble families of France through her parents, Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart, Prince of Tonnay-Charente, and Diane de Grandseigne. From her father, she inherited the famous Mortemart esprit ("wit"). As a young girl, she often travelled with her mother between the family estates and the court at the Louvre in Paris. At the age of twelve, she began her formal education at the Convent of St Mary at Saintes, where her sister Gabrielle had started hers almos...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=28721


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156850077
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115685007X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de Montespan
  • Width: 229 mm


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