Maintenon
Americannoun
noun
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Princes and potentates once treated the toilet seat as an extension of the throne; it was from the gilded cabinet that France's Louis XIV announced his engagement to Mme. de Maintenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The son of Madame de Montespan, Louis' most beautiful mistress, he became prot�g� of Madame de Maintenon, Louis' most enduring love.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is persistently concerned with rectifying the long-distorted picture of Maine and Madame de Maintenon, both of whom are customarily presented as monsters of intrigue and ambition.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madame de Maintenon exerted daily a more manifest empire.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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