Marie-Catherine Desjardins
was only about fifteen when she entered into a clandestine engagement with a cousin, which was broken off the next month by her father
.
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
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.
385
Family and Intimate relationships
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Her father, Guillaume Desjardins
, had an adventurous seafaring career behind him, and held a provincial government position. He too enjoyed noble patronage, but some years after separating from his wife he was imprisoned for...