Short name |
Maintenon, Françoise de |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/95293754/ |
First name |
Françoise |
Maiden name |
|
Married name |
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Alternative name |
Françoise d' Aubigné
,
Françoise d' Aubigny
,
Françoise Scarron
,
Marquise de Maintenon
,
Madame Scarron
|
Date of birth |
1635 |
Date of death |
1719 |
Flourishing |
- |
Sex |
Female |
Place of birth |
France |
Place of death |
France |
Lived in |
France
,
Paris
|
Place of residence notes |
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Related to |
Marthe-Marguerite Comtesse de Caylus
,
Anne-Marie de la Trémoille princesse Des Ursins
|
Bibliography |
Mentioned in:
- La Porte 1769 I 557-576
- Boudier de Villemert 1778
- Briquet 1804
- Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886
- Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890
- Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 |
Provisional Notes |
KLK 1915
According to Desplantes et Pouthier, while traveling to America as a young girl, Françoise got so sick her parents believed her to be dead, and were on the verge of throwing her overboard when she regained consciousness. p.191
Morganatic marriage with Louis XIV (so never officially queen)
Father had bad reputation: killed first wife and was imprisoned for a considerable amount of time for various reasons. Françoise said to have been born in prison. Desplantes et Pouthier, pp.187-188
Niort 27-11-1635 - Saint-Cyr 15-04-1719.
Lived in Martinique, Niort, Paris, Saint-Cyr, Versailles.
Married to Scarron, widowed (1660), remarried in 1685 to Louis XIV, widowed (1715).
MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p. 35ss: critique of institutional marriage |