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Montespan
[mon-tuh-span, maw
noun
Marquise de Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart, 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
Montespan
/ ɔ̃ɛɑ̃ /
noun
Marquise de, title of Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart. 1641–1707, French noblewoman; mistress of Louis XIV of France
Example Sentences
The manuscript in question had belonged to the Count of Toulouse, the son of Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan, and the count’s music teacher was none other than Couperin.
He spent time there not with his wife, Maria-Theresa of Austria, but his lover, Madame de Montespan.
She owed her bread to Madame de Montespan," replied the Prince, "and yet ceased not her efforts till she had supplanted her.
He resolved to dismiss Madame de Montespan, and departed to join the army without seeing her.
In the course of his brief penitence, Louis frowned majestically upon his tempest-tempered favorite, Madame de Montespan.
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