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The personalities jump off the page, none more so than Louis XIV, whose superannuated yearning for his second and secret wife, Madame de Maintenon, cannot fail to raise a chuckle.
Sentimental Journeys Tobias Grey 2011
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The personalities jump off the page, none more so than Louis XIV, whose superannuated yearning for his second and secret wife, Madame de Maintenon, cannot fail to raise a chuckle.
Sentimental Journeys Tobias Grey 2011
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"At the age of seventy, Louis XIV made love to Madame de Maintenon twice a day, much to her annoyance," writes a typically playful Ms. Caro.
Sentimental Journeys Tobias Grey 2011
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"At the age of seventy, Louis XIV made love to Madame de Maintenon twice a day, much to her annoyance," writes a typically playful Ms. Caro.
Sentimental Journeys Tobias Grey 2011
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She's even making me reappraise my initial dislike of Madame de Maintenon.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tim Stretton 2009
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She's even making me reappraise my initial dislike of Madame de Maintenon.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009
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I would love to read her take on Louis XIV's relationship with Madame de Maintenon, his morganatic wife.
Archive 2009-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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His happy disposition made him welcome in all the salons, among those of the houses of Orleans, Conde and Conti and others who displayed arms of pure descent over their portals, as well as those of their enemies: the Madame de Maintenon, the Count of Toulouse and the children of the King who had acquired their privileges more recently.
Insouciant Young Geoffrion 2009
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His happy disposition made him welcome in all the salons, among those of the houses of Orleans, Conde and Conti and others who displayed arms of pure descent over their portals, as well as those of their enemies: the Madame de Maintenon, the Count of Toulouse and the children of the King who had acquired their privileges more recently.
Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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They had played for many years in the Fairs and marketplaces, growing so popular that they threatened the Comédie-Française, and their fathers had been expelled from Paris in the previous century for lampooning Madame de Maintenon.
Archive 2008-12-01 Young Geoffrion 2008
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