Williams, Charles G. S. Madame de Sévigné. Twayne, 1981.
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Françoise d'Aubigné marquise de Maintenon
Standard Name: Maintenon, Françoise d'Aubigné,,, marquise de
Used Form: Francoise d'Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Marie de Sévigné | Her close friends included the fiction-writers Madeleine de Scudéry
and Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
(both of whom created literary portraits of her) and the royal mistress, Madame de Maintenon
. |
| Textual Features | Jane Warton | Scholar David Fairer
has identified JW
's contribution, from its style, as Adventurer no. 87. This essay, later entitled Politeness a necessary auxiliary to knowledge and virtue, Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92. 87 |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Walker | Meanwhile, Lady Frances begins by building one hundred dwellings (designed by Capability Brown
) to house artisans and workmen, and proceeds to construct a museum, library, astronomical observatory, an anatomy room, studios, a botanical garden... |
| Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The prose pieces include a dialogue of the dead between the ancient beauty Helen and the modern Madame de Maintenon
. Literary historian James Chandler notes that the most substantial piece in the volume is... |
| Textual Features | Caroline Bowles | Fanny is then taken up by Lady Gertrude Lascelles, whose husband owns a nearby manor. Fashionable and literary, Lady Gertrude is already stamped for immortality in the pages of sundry Annuals, Magazines .... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Burnet | Her journal of her travels in Europe in 1707 is rich in social and political commentary in the manner of a talented travel writer. She comments on the ideas and opinions of those she talked... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | CL
published Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon, an abridged translation (still five volumes long) from the French of Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle
. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44. 327 Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols. 1: 81n2 |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | The five sections of this book centre on Anne of Austria
(Louis's mother), Marie Therese
(his wife), and on his mistresses or supposed mistresses |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Thicknesse | Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone
has been added to the... |
Timeline
1686: Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery...
Building item
1686
Madame de Maintenon
founded, in a nunnery at St Cyr near Paris, a school for impoverished noble girls. Closed with other convents at the Revolution, the institution re-opened in 1808 as a school for...
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