Duchesse de Valentinois

The Duchesse de Valentinois, Madame de Poitiers, thanks you for your kind greetings, and wishes you to know that, as the honoured friend of the King, and in his name, she welcomes you to France.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

In the meantime, they were to consider that Madame the Duchesse de Valentinois was acting entirely on His Majesty's behalf.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

In the meantime, they were to consider that Madame the Duchesse de Valentinois was acting entirely on His Majesty's behalf.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The Duchesse de Valentinois, Madame de Poitiers, thanks you for your kind greetings, and wishes you to know that, as the honoured friend of the King, and in his name, she welcomes you to France.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

M. de Monaco, who had obtained for himself the title of foreign prince by the marriage of his son with the Duchesse de Valentinois, daughter of M. le Grand, and who enjoyed, as it were, the sovereignty of a rock -- beyond whose narrow limits anybody might spit, so to speak, whilst standing in the middle -- soon found, and his son still more so, that they had bought the title very dearly.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

I went into the shop to ask the price, which I knew beforehand would be far beyond my purse, and the distinguished-looking, white-haired little Creole lady said, "It is dear; but, Madame, it is veritable, it bears the colours of the Duchesse de Valentinois, who never left off mourning for her husband, Monsieur de Brèze."

My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

Poitiers, the beautiful and fascinating Duchesse de Valentinois of equivocal yet enduring fame.

The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

And the apple of discord, some say, had been the Duchesse de Valentinois.

The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

There is no doubt, however, that certain satirical verses were written about the Duchesse de Valentinois, in which she and the King also are spoken of with a freedom not to be expected under the old régime.

In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886

To this day her legend is vital in the country-side; and the old people still talk about her as though she were alive among them; and call her always not by her formal title of the Duchesse de Valentinois, but by her love title of "la belle dame de l'Étoile."

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881