Maintenon
Americannoun
noun
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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.
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In 1716 the Italian comedians whom Louis XIV's prudish mistress, Maintenon, had banished 19 years before, were called back to France, and Watteau caught the vogue for them by painting Le Mezzetin.
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One of the Carp at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV was said to resemble Madame de Maintenon to an extraordinary degree.
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That its desperate romantic crumbs�Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there�are not enough to make up for its boredom.
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L'esprit et le g�nie de Madame de Maintenon, tel qu'il vient d'�tre repr�sent� avec exactitude, n'�tait rien moins que propre, ni capable d'aucune affaire au-del� de l'intrigue.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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