Montespan
Americannoun
noun
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The manuscript in question had belonged to the Count of Toulouse, the son of Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan, and the count’s music teacher was none other than Couperin.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016
One episode she understandably failed to record concerned Count de Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roaming the Pyrenees in 1922. he arrived at the village of Montespan. ruled for centuries by the Lords of Montespan one of whose ladies achieved fame as the mistress of Louis XIV.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day Mme. de Montespan informed the Princess that the King would never permit Lauzun to be Duc de Montpensier, and that it would be necessary to have a secret marriage.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
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