La Vallière

[la va-lyer]

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noun

Duchesse de 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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Pompadour and La Valliere were avowedly stupid in conversation.

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Lettre de M. Neyon de la Vallière, à tous les nations de la Belle Rivière et du Lac, etc.

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It is needless to repeat the descriptions that have been given by M. Peignot of the manuscripts in the Duke de la Valliere’s catalogue.

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In the Duke de la Valliere’s catal.

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In the years 1836-37 Macready introduced three new writers in the "Ion" of Talfourd, "Strafford" of Browning, and the "Duchess de la Vallière" of Bulwer-Lytton.

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