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	Madame de Maintenon
		Madame de Maintenon ran this institution which educated two hundred daughters of the poor nobility from the area.
		Because Madame de Maintenon believed in strict education of the young people about Roman Catholicism, she is often blamed for the persecutions of the Protestants.
		Madame de Maintenon ended her life in quiet retirement at St. Cyr until her death in 1719.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/demaintenon.html (1006 words)

	Mlle de Scudéri
		Madame de Maintenon, faithful to her serious turn, and ever wearing the garb of a certain piousness, answered that secret and forbidden practices did not deserve much in the form of protection, but that the criminals probably did require special laws for their punishment.
		Madame de Maintenon, when she had heard the whole affair properly related, thought Mademoiselle de Scudéri was taking it far too much to heart, strange as the occurrence was - that the insult of a pack of wretched rabble could not hurt an upright, noble heart; and finally begged that she might see the ornaments.
		Madame de Maintenon offered to twine the bridal wreath herself, and give her a few hints as to the duties of a housewife, a subject on which such a poor inexperienced little chit could not be expected to know very much.
	www.fln.vcu.edu /hoffmann/scuderi_e_pics.html (20930 words)

	Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before she started, she met Madame de Montespan, who was already, though not avowedly, the king's mistress, and who took such a fancy to her that Francoise obtained the continuance of her pension, putting off forever going to Portugal.
		Mme de Montespan did yet more for her, in 1669,when her first child by the king was born, Mme Scarron was established with a large income and a large staff of servants at Vaugirard to bring up the king's children in secrecy, as they were born.
		Mme de Maintenon was a born teacher; she had so won the hearts of her first pupils that they preferred her to their own mother, and was similarly successful later with the young and impetuous Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_de_Maintenon (1473 words)

	Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV, nee Francoise d'Aubigne
		Madame de Maintenon is memorable as an educator and was responsible for the improvement of the moral tones of the Court.
		The Marchioness of Maintenon, la marquise de Maintenon, née Francoise d'Aubigne, was born in the prison of Niort on November 24 1635.
		Mme de Maintenon is hired to secretly conceal this first child, waiting at the birthing, then hiding the child in small house in Paris, so that the Marquis de Montespan is unable to have the child to legitimize him.
	www.geocities.com /daniellla.geo/maintenon.html (864 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Madame Guyon
		Madame de Maintenon, and through her, the young ladies of Saint-Cyr, were soon gained over to the new mysticism.
		Warned by him, Madame de Maintenon sought the advice of persons whose piety and prudence recommended them to her, and these advisers were unanimous in their reprobation of Madame Guyon's ideas.
		Madame Guyon remained imprisoned in the Bastille until 21 March, 1703, when she went, after more than seven years of captivity, to live with her son in a village in the Diocese of Blois.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07092b.htm (1583 words)

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		She gained Madame de Maintenon, and the first result of this step was, that the King censured Chamillart for not speaking of the letters in circulation, and ordered him to write to Alberoni and D'Evreux (Campistron, strangely enough, was forgotten), commanding them to keep silence for the future.
		Madame de Bourgogne did all she could to turn the current that was setting in against her husband; and in this she was assisted by Madame de Maintenon, who was annoyed to the last degree to see that other people had more influence over the King than she had.
		Madame de Maintenon wished to talk with Mademoiselle Choin without sending for her to Versailles, and the King, as may be believed, was in the secret.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/3/8/6/3865/3865.txt (21919 words)

	Madame de Maintenon
		Als gouvernante van de kinderen van Françoise de Montespan en Lodewijk XIV (sinds 1669) kreeg zij grote invloed op de koning, die haar in 1674 het landgoed Maintenon als markiezaat schonk.
		Toen deze overleden was, huwde Lodewijk XIV haar in het geheim (1683).
		There Maintenon often sought to escape the restraints of the court and to put into practice the pedagogical talents she was convinced she possessed.
	members.tripod.com /versailles4/id28.htm (1525 words)

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		A woman named Madame de Maintenon was hired as governess of the children and was to oversee their education.
		Madame de Maintenon was a devout Catholic woman and would use her moral abilities to gain power in the courts as well.
		Made marquise, Maintenon was loved dearly by even the wife of the king before the queen’s death, with the queen dying in her arms.
	www.angelfire.com /ia3/feraylem/montespan.html (1036 words)

	Maintenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maintenon, together with the neighbouring commune of Pierres, form an urban area of 7,131 inhabitants (1999 census).
		Maintenon is known for its picturesque Château de Maintenon, home of Madame de Maintenon, mistress and later second wife of King Louis XIV.
		Another tourist attraction are the ruins of the aqueduct of Maintenon, built by Louis XIV to carry water from the Eure River to the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maintenon (200 words)

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		Madame Guyon was the leader of the Quietist movement in France.
		The foundation of her Quietism was laid in her study of St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, and Thomas à Kempis.
		Her life at all times greatly fascinated those around her; the court, Madame de Maintenon, and Madame de Maintenon’s College of Ladies at Cyr, came under the spell of her enthusiasm.
	www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/g/u/guyon_jmb.htm (315 words)

	Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 5 eBook
		Madame de Maintenon wished to alight, and when she perceived the unfortunate vine-grower disfigured with his wounds, she clasped her hands and fell to weeping.
		Madame de Maintenon, speaking as though she were the mistress, bade them be silent, and dared to say to them before all the crowd: “If you belonged to me, I would soon settle you.” At these words all the spectators applauded, and cried: “Vive Madame de Maintenon!”
		“Madame,” she replied, “you have not seen, as I did, those eyes of the unhappy man forced violently from their sockets, his poor crushed head, his palpitating heart, from which the blood soaked the pavement; such a sight has moved and broken my own heart.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3851/7.html (521 words)

	History's Women An Online Magazine
		Francoise d'Aubigne Maintenon was born at Niort, November 27, 1635, and died at St. Cyr, April 15 1719.
		The comic poet Scarron, who was a paralytic and a cripple, lived in the same street with the Countess de Neuillant, became interested in the young, beautiful, and intelligent girl, whose adventures had been related to him and furnished money to enable her to enter a convent, which poverty had before prevented her from doing.
		In 1669 she became governess to the children of Louis XIV by Madame de Montespan, much to the dissatisfaction of the king.
	www.historyswomen.com /womenwhoruled/MadamedeMaintenon.html (437 words)

	Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole (Municipality, Yvelines, France)
		Françoise d'Aubigné, Marchioness of Maintenon, was the grand daughter of the Calvinist poet Aggripa d'Aubigné (1552-1630), a brother in arms of King Henri IV.
		In 1679, Madame de Montespan was compromised in the Poisons' Affair and was replaced by Madame de Maintenon as the official king's favourite.
		After the marriage, Madame de Maintenon exerted a strong influence on the king and transformed his rule in a personal, religious dictatorship.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-78-sc.html (1076 words)

	Royalty.nu - French Royal History - Louis XIV, King of France
		Madame Scarron took Montespan's place as the king's mistress and was given the title Madame de Maintenon.
		Unlike the king's previous mistresses, Madame de Maintenon was a matronly woman; also unlike the others, she managed to hold on to the king's affections.
		It was partially due to Madame de Maintenon's influence that Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/France/LouisXIV.html (3075 words)

	Saint Cyr, by Patrica Mazuy, 2000
		The ambitious proto-feminist, Madame de MAintenon, who studiously climbed her way from a lowly courtesan to the bejeweled wife of Louis XIV.
		Maintenon uses her influence over the king in order to create a utopian school for the female children of destitude noblitiy.
		Maintenon sets out to create Saint-cyr, a utopian school filled with "spirit, loftniness and great freedom in conversation" and she resolutely demands that it not be a covent.
	mjf.missouristate.edu /faculty/wang/ih/career/2000_saintcyr.htm (330 words)

	CHAPTER XXI
		This remonstrance had no effect upon madame de Maintenon, who shielded herself from any necessity of retracting, by repeating to herself, that she had pledged herself to join Louis XIV in the undertaking, and it would never do for her to forfeit her character for firmness and good sense by now appearing trifling and capricious.
		One person besides madame de Cerfol was necessarily admitted into their confidence, and that was the duc de Noailles, who was charged, by the king's express orders, to take every possible precaution to ensure their safety, as far as it could be done without attracting public attention to so extraordinary an affair.
		His conduct towards the prince de Conde became more gracious than it had ever been observed to be to the princes of the blood; for there existed a singular coolness in the royal family towards all the princes of this branch.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Barry/00000031.htm (3225 words)

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		The King of Spain a Widower.—Intrigues of Madame des Ursins.—Choice of the Princes of Parma.—The King of France Kept in the Dark.—Celebration of the Marriage.—Sudden Fall of the Princesse des Ursins.—Her Expulsion from Spain.
		Character of Madame de Maintenon.—Her Conversation.—Her Narrow-mindedness.—Her Devotion.—Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.—Its Fatal Consequences.—Saint Cyr.—Madame de Maintenon Desires Her Marriage to be Declared.—Her Schemes.—Counterworked by Louvois.—His Vigorous Conduct and Sudden Death.—Behaviour of the King.—Extraordinary Death of Seron.
		Daily Occupations of Madame de Maintenon.—Her Policy—How She Governed the King’s Affairs.—Connivance with the Ministers.—Anecdote of Le Tellier.—Behaviour of the King to Madame de Maintenon.— His Hardness.—Selfishness.—Want of Thought for Others.—Anecdotes.— Resignation of the King.—Its Causes.—The Jesuits and the Doctors.—The King and Lay Jesuits.
	pglaf.org /~widger/folder/cm38b10h/cm38b10h.html (3843 words)

	The Judgment of Paris \| Sexual Fables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maintenon also may have received a visit from the Noctambule, though history does not record this, for she was more discreet.
		Maintenon’s career illustrates this point: early in her life she married one of those rich men and educated herself in her husband’s salon.
		Through her marriage to the King, Madame de Maintenon was granted the power to make an impact on society and she acted upon it, moving against the heretic Huguenots and the flourishing trade in prostitution.
	www.sexualfables.com /the_judgment_of_paris.php (4579 words)

	Madame de Maintenon
		Maintenon left a large number of letters (there is as yet no complete edition), valued by historians for what they reveal of Louis and his policies.
		Madame Guyon, was a regular visitor to Saint-Cyr; Maintenon, the teachers, and the older students read and re-read Guyon's Moyen court et tres facile pour l'oraison (A short and very easy method of prayer).
		The correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, mother of the regent: of Marie-Adelaide de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in relation to Saint-Cyr / Preceded by introductions from C.A. Sainte-Beuve.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/mainteno.html (5411 words)

	Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 4 eBook
		As Madame de Maintenon’s character happened to please the King, as I have already stated, he allotted her handsome apartments at Court while waiting until he could keep her there as a fixture, by conferring upon her some important appointment.
		Madame de Maintenon readily admits that she owes her actual good fortune to myself.
		I also saw one of her letters to Madame de Saint-Geran, in which she refers to me in terms of gratitude.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3850/6.html (580 words)

	MADAME DE MAINTENON
		If Madame des Ursins had not been protected by Madame de Maintenon, she would have been ruined at Court long before the Queen of Spain dismissed her, for in his heart the King disliked her excessively; but all those who were supported by Madame de Maintenon were sure to triumph.
		The Duchesse de Bourbon was taught by her mother and her aunt, Mesdames de Montespan and De Thiange, to ridicule everybody, under the pretext of diverting the King.
		In the meantime, Maintenon was incessantly censuring the King; she told him that he would be damned if he did not live on better terms with the Queen.
	www.pccua.edu /keough/new_page_16.htm (4700 words)

	Rochester - The young and the restless - Film - Film reviews - City Newspaper
		Madame de Maintenon was the second wife of Louis XIV, a.k.a.
		Madame de Maintenon (played by the inimitable Isabelle Huppert) is eager to begin her experiment, which will encourage the girls to think beyond an advantageous marriage, perhaps even lead them to aspire to become judges or doctors.
		But once Lucie implores Madame for guidance, a heartbreaking struggle ensues between the de facto Queen and the furious Anne, who once trusted in Madame's revolutionary vision but now watches helplessly as her teenage classmates become brides of either the moneyed elderly or Christ.
	www.rochester-citynews.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:4420 (802 words)

	TIME.com: Days of the Roi Soleil -- Jul 28, 1924 -- Page 1
		Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévigné, de Grignan or de Maintenon were obsequious in character, unless they engaged in abstract discussion of the Arts or turned to the contemplation of Nature, which was the rarest of expedients.
		The letters of de Maintenon (widow of the poet Scrarron) were naturally centred upon the King and in them can be seen the depths of her bigotry and the schemes she laid for securing and maintaining boundless influence over Louis.
		Referring to a Royal visit to the Armies, she says: "Madame de Chartres, Madame la Duchesse and the Princess de Conti have all three returned from the expedition pregnant, so the King cannot pretend that this journey was a fruitless one.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,880400,00.html (555 words)

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		IT MUST not be imagined that in order to maintain her position Madame de Maintenon had need of no address.
		This done, ten o'clock had arrived; the curtains of Madame de Maintenon were drawn, and the King went to supper, after saying good night to her.
		As for state matters, if Madame de Maintenon wished to make them succeed, fail, or turn in some particular fashion (which happened much less often than where favors and appointments were in the wind), the same intelligence and the same intrigue were carried on between herself and the minister.
	members.garbersoft.net /spartacus/st_simon.htm (865 words)

	Movie Info for Saint-Cyr on MSN Movies
		Madame de Maintenon (Isabelle Huppert) rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV (Jean-Pierre Kalfon).
		With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special school for girls, seeking to educate young ladies of distinguished parentage but limited financial means.
		With the coaching of Maintenon and her staff, the girls learn to speak French with a linguist's precision, in addition to studying philosophy and history.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=90679 (178 words)

	French culture \| cinema: Saint-Cyr by Patricia Mazuy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a banner year-she gave outstanding performances for directors as varied as Raul Ruiz and Claude Chabrol-Isabelle Huppert was especially praised for her work in Saint-Cyr, Patricia Mazuy’s wry look at the hidden costs of idealism.
		Madame de Maintenon (Huppert), wife of Louis XIV, founds Saint-Cyr, a boarding school outside of Paris for the daughters of destitute nobility: girls from all over the kingdom are brought there to acquire the language and manners befitting their rank.
		Yet what begins as a form of cultural charity eventually becomes a source of nightmarish anxiety for Madame de Maintenon, as the idle rapacious young noblemen who loll about Versailles discover her blossoming young charges.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/mazuy-saintcyr.html (168 words)

	Films Allee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It starts as Francoise d'Aubigné (future Madame de Maintenon) marries her first husband - the writer Scarron and ends with death of Louis XIV.
		Mainly that film is about Madame de Maintenon, but as we follow her everywhere we meet all famous people - Madame de Montespan, Louis XIV, Louis' Ministers, Queen of France and we visit Versailles, Maintenon and some other great places.
		de Maintenon going up, M. de Montespan going down...
	www.louis-xiv.de /louisold/Films/Allee.html (270 words)

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