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La Vallière
[ la va-lyer ]
noun
- Du·chesse de [dy-, shes, d, uh], Francoise Louise de la Baume Le Blanc, 1644–1710, French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XIV of France: later a religious.
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The Countess gave up the day and the diadem, returned to her palace, and began the study of La Vallière again.
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Louise de la Vallière became one of the best women in the world; but there are some other things that might be said of her.
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It was the first expression of "La Vallière" since she had come timidly to court.
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It was suppressed, and only one copy escaped destruction, which was bought in 1784 by the Duc de La Vallière for 120 livres.
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There was at that time in the court a young lady, one of Henrietta's maids of honor, Mademoiselle de la Vallière.
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