The mother
of Marie-Catherine Desjardins
obtained a legal separation from her husband
, and succeeded in retaining her money in her own hands.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
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Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Her mother, née Catherine Ferrand
, was much younger than her husband and was at the time of her wedding waiting-woman to a duchess.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.