* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

" In the 17th and 18th centuries, many infants were baptised on the day of their birth as in the cases of Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de Montespan, Jeanne Du Barry and Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo.

Diaghilev was soon responsible for the production of the Annual of the Imperial Theaters in 1900, and promptly offered assignments to his close friends: Léon Bakst would design costumes for the French play Le Coeur de la Marquise, while Benois was given the opportunity to produce Sergei Taneyev's opera Cupid's Revenge.

* December 29 – Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France ( d. 1764 )

Image: Pompadour6. jpg | Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1748 – 1755

File: Boucher Marquise de Pompadour 1756. jpg | François Boucher Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1756

In 1987 she played the disturbed book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction, and in 1988 she played the scheming aristocrat The Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.

Marquise de Pompadour ( mistress of King Louis XV ), whose name became synonymous with Rococo art, was a great fan of Boucher's, and had the painter under her protection: it is particularly in his portraits of her that this style is clearly exemplified.

Shortly after Fleury's death in 1745 Louis was most influenced by his mistress the Marquise de Pompadour.

In secret marriage, Louis XIV wed his second wife, Madame de Maintenon, in 1683 ; Louis the Grand Dauphin wed Marie Émilie de Joly de Choin in 1695 ; Anne Marie d ' Orléans ( La Grande Mademoiselle ) wed Antoine, Duke of Lauzun in 1682 ; and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans wed the Marquise de Montesson in 1773.

The most famous of Louis's mistresses were the sisters of Mailly-Nesle ( four of the five sisters were king's mistresses, notably Louise-Julie, Comtesse de Mailly from 1738 to 1742 and Marie Anne, Duchesse de Châteauroux in 1743-44 ); Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour ( called Madame de Pompadour, the official mistress from 1745 to 1764 ); and Marie Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry ( official mistress from 1768 until the king's death in 1774 ).

The Marquise de Merteuil ( Glenn Close ) appears to be virtuous and upstanding, but in fact is a sexually ravenous, amoral schemer who plays games with men out of bitterness at the constricted station of women in her society.

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Françoise d ' Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon ( 27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719 ) was the second wife of King Louis XIV of France.

In 1678, the king gave her the title of Marquise de Maintenon after the name of her estate.

* L ' allée du Roi ", Françoise Chandernagor, Memories of Françoise d ’ Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, wife of the king of France, French, Paris, Julliard, 1995 ISBN 2-266-06787-7

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It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's, a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope, gave Harry Dobson an opportunity and an audience ; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems, including " Tu Quoque ," " A Gentleman of the Old School ," " A Dialogue from Plato ," and " Une Marquise.

An engraving of the Count of St Germain by Nicolas Thomas made in 1783, after a painting then owned by the Marquise d ' Urfe and now apparently lost.

Sometime Garrett collaborator Michael Kurland ( who would himself write later Lord Darcy works, with the permission of Garrett's estate ) appears as Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Coeur-Terre in Too Many Magicians ; and in " A Case of Identity " the Marquise of Rouen, worried about her missing husband, is described as drinking herself into a stupor on " the best brandy, the St.

Prince Boris moved to the Moika palace in St. Petersburg ( Also known as Yusupov Palace ) with his second wife, Zenaida Ivanovna Narishkina, ( who later became Comtesse de Chauveau, Marquise de Serre through her second marriage ) ( May 18, 1810-February 26, 1893 ) ( daughter of Ivan Dimitrievitch Narishkin April 17, 1776-April 15, 1840, Marshal of the Sytchev Nobility in 1829 and later a Chamberlain, and a relative of Peter the Great's mother, and Varvara Ivanovna Narishkina, née Ladomirsky May 17, 1785-November 26, 1840 ), and their only son Nikolai.

* 1474 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( d. 1539 )

* February 13 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( b. 1474 )

* May 18 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( d. 1539 )

In 1997, she continued her string of successful films with William Nicholson's Firelight, filmed in England, Véra Belmont's Marquise, filmed in France, and Bernard Rose's Anna Karenina.

See " Translating Newton's ' Principia ': The Marquise du Châtelet's Revisions and Additions for a French Audience.

A patron of the arts, the Marquise amassed a considerable amount of furniture and objets d ' art in her various estates.

The Marquise was a liberal at heart and she steadily defended the Encyclopédie against the attacks of the Church.

The Marquise was in favour of reforms.

The Marquise refuses, and they declare war.

The Marquise reveals to Danceny that Valmont had seduced Cécile.

* Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil: a member of the French nobility, the Marquise has been forced to comply with the social rules of her gender at that time.