MONTESPAN, FRANÇOISE ATHÉNAÏS, MARQUISE DE

fräNswäzˈ ätānäēsˈ märkēzˈ də môNtəspäNˈ, 1641–1707, mistress of King Louis XIV of France. She was maid of honor to Queen Marie Thérèse and replaced (c.1667) Mlle de La Vallière as the king's mistress. She bore the king several children. Their education was entrusted to Mme de Maintenon, who succeeded her in the king's favor. She later retired to a convent.

See H. N. Williams, Madame de Montespan (1903); F. Mossiker, The Affair of the Poisons (1970).

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The Age of Absolutism, 1660-1815
Book by Max Beloff; Hutchinsons University Library, 1954
Subjects: Despotism, Europe--History--1648-1789
...Maintenon, Franciose dAubigne, Marquise de, 58 Maria Theresa Empress...Miranda, Francesco, 167 Montespan, Francoise-Athenais, marquise de, 66 Montesquieu, Charles...Jose de Carvalho e Mello, marquise of, 101 - 3 population...
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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 13
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1911
Subjects: History, Modern
Monte San Giovanni, siege of 1495 , I 114 Montes Claros, battle of 1665 , v 34, 105 Montespan, Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de, v 19 sq.; 23; 31 Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de, IV 790; V 2...
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The Cambridge Modern History: Planned by the Late Lord Acton - Vol. 5
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; University Press, 1908
Subjects: History, Modern
...against the Turks, 345 sqq.; 353 ; death of, 360 ; 366 ; 369 Montes Claros, battle of, 34 ; 105 Montespan, Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de, 19 sq.; 23 ; 31 Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de, 2 ; 275 Montezuma...
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The Myth of the Magus
Book by E. M. Butler; Cambridge University Press, 1948
Subjects: Magic--History
...P. de, 148 Miles Bacons servant , 158 Militarius, 136 Milon, 52 Mithras, 88 Mnesarchus, 48 Montespan, Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de, 172 Morande, Th. de, 215 , 219 f., 234 ff. More, R. P., 76 n., 77 n., 78 n., 79...
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The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701
Book by Guy Rowlands; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: France--Armaee--History, France--History--Louis Xiv, 1643-1715
...v. , xxiii , 47 8 Montausier, Julie-Francoise de Saint-Maure, see Uzes, duchesse de...Mestre de camp general of the cavalry, 191n Montespan, Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart, marquise de, mistress of Louis XIV q.v. , 41...
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Courtly Loving
Magazine article by Anne Somerset; New Statesman, Vol. 135, September 18, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Book)--Book reviews
...once considered a friend, Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de Montespan. With her voluptuous beauty and enchanting wit, Athenais was in many ways a more fitting...contemporaries whispered that Madame de Montespan must have poisoned her. Yet...


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Hidden but Hardly Far from View
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 15, 2009
Subjects: Buckley, Veronica
...Nominally a biography of Francoise DAbigne, Louis XIVs...France. The facts of Francoise DAbignes life are...children by his mistress Athenais, marquise de Montespan; finally, in middle...sometimes two, Francoise disappears so that...


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Montespan, FranÇoise AthÉnaÏs, Marquise De
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MONTESPAN, FRANCOISE ATHENAIS, MARQUISE DE fraNswaz atanaes markez d moNt spaN , 1641 1707, mistress...later retired to a convent. See H. N. Williams, Madame de Montespan (1903); F. Mossiker, The Affair of the Poisons (1970...


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