Definition of Marquise de Montespan

1. Noun. French noblewoman who was mistress to Louis XIV until he became attracted to Madame de Maintenon (1641-1707).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Marquise De Montespan

Maroon Spirit
Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
Marplan
Marquand
Marquesan
Marquesans
Marquesas
Marquesas Islands
Marquess
Marquette
Marquis' reagent
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Laplace
Marquis de Sade
Marquise de Maintenon
Marquise de Montespan (current term)
Marquise de Pompdour
Marrakech
Marrakesh
Marranic
Marranism
Marranist
Marrano
Marranos
Marrubium vulgare
Marruecos
Mars
Mars Express
Mars Rover
Mars bar parties

Literary usage of Marquise de Montespan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1904)
"The Marquise de Montespan appeared at Court with everything that was necessary to attract attention and to please. To the most overwhelming beauty was ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Madame de Montespan In the meantime the marquise de Montespan was enjoying ... The queen, Madame, her sister-in- law, and the marquise de Montespan were in ..."

3. Old Court Life in France by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot (1893)
"This rival, the governess of her children, insulted Madame la Marquise de Montespan. ... The Marquise de Montespan was bowed out of Versailles. ..."

4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"The marquise de Montespan, although she no longer had an open rival, none the less ... The marquise de Montespan still attracted the principal attention but ..."

5. Book-prices Current: A Record of Prices at which Books Have Been Sold at Auction (1900)
"Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, now first translated, 2 vol., one of 5 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, portraits, morocco super extra, ..."

6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"... famous reign—was the Marquise de Montespan, who was married in 1663 at the age of twenty-two, but soon grew envious of the position occupied at Court by ..."

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