* Marquise de Maintenon " Instruction to the Nuns of St. Louis ," in Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women.

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.

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

* French: Marquis, Margrave / Marquise, Margrave

* 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.

Princess Caroline of Monaco uses the style Marquise des Baux, but, being a French title it can only pass through a male line under Salic law.

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour ( 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764, ) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.

One woman allowed admission into Madame Geoffrin's salon, Madame d ' Etioles who was to become Madame la Marquise de Pompadour after earning the French King's interest, is reputed to have offered Madame Geoffrin and her daughter opportunities to present themselves at the French Court.

It was a typical Roman Catholic Mass, but modified according to certain formulas ( some reminiscent of the Latin Sworn Book of Honorius, or its French version, The Grimoire of Pope Honorius ) and featuring the King's mistress ( the Marquise de Montespan ) as the central altar of worship, lying naked upon the altar with the chalice on her bare stomach, and holding two black candles in each of her outstretched arms.

* 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

Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ, Marquise ( later Duchess ) of Tourzel ( Louise Élisabeth Félicité Françoise Armande Anne Marie Jeanne Joséphine ; 11 June 1749 – 15 May 1832 ) was a French memoir-writer, noble and courtier.

The Marquise has featured in several novels about the French Royal family, including Trianon and Madame Royale by Elena Maria Vidal, Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy and the Marie Antoinette romances by Alexandre Dumas, père.

The character of the Marquise de Tourzel appeared in the 1956 French film Marie-Antoinette reine de France.

Lisette, Marquise de Brinon ( 1896 – 26 March 1982 ) was best known as the Jewish wife of the pro-Nazi French collaborator, Fernand de Brinon.

The English possession of Boulogne was eventually compromised by the French construction of a fort at Marquise, north of the town, which could blockade supplies.

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles ( 1647 – 12 July 1733 ), who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière.

* Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy ( Original text, in French )

Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d ' Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers ( 22 July 1630 – 17 July 1676 ) was a French serial killer.

Adélaïde-Emilie ( sometimes Émilie-Adélaïde ) Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho ( 14 May 1761 – 19 April 1836 ) was a French writer.

In September she created the role of the Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the play by Christopher Hampton after the French novel by Choderlos de Laclos.

Marthe-Marguerite de Villette de Mursay, Marquise de Caylus ( 1673 – 1729 ) was a French noblewoman and writer.

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( d. 1733 )

* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist

French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.

Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb ’ s law of magnetic action.

* 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 )

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

The Cinépolis Galerías Diana and the Teatro Juan Ruíz de Alarcón show French and French literary figures give talks on their specialised subjects.

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )