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

* 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.

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.

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.

The king purchased the marquisate of Pompadour on 24 June and gave the estate, with title and coat-of-arms, to Jeanne Antoinette, making her a Marquise.

The Marquise de Pompadour never had much direct political influence, but supported the Maréchal de Belle-Isle and endorsed the duc de Choiseul to the king.

There were several reasons for the Marquise de Pompadour ’ s lasting influence over Louis that distinguished her from past mistresses.

Unlike the other females in the King's life, the Marquise de Pompadour accompanied him while hunting, playing cards, and touring properties.

The Marquise de Pompadour was an accomplished woman with a good eye for Rococo interiors.

Her most bitter rival was the Duchesse Béatrix de Grammont, Choiseul's sister, who had in vain tried her best to acquire the place of the late Marquise de Pompadour, and according to Madame Adélaïde, Béatrix de Grammont would have disdained the comtesse no matter what.

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.

At the time of his death in 1753, Évreux was the owner of one of the most widely admired houses in Paris, and it was bought by King Louis XV as a residence for the Marquise de Pompadour, his mistress.

On the advice of his mistress, the Marquise de Pompadour, the king supported the policy of fiscal justice designed by d ' Arnouville.

: That Belonged to the Marquise De Pompadour

* an interactive multimedia module about the Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour in the Website of the musée du Louvre

Jeanne-Antoinette, who became Louis XV's mistress, is better known to history as the Marquise de Pompadour ( Marie, 1984 ; Nolhac, 1926 ).

* Madame de Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, a well-known courtesan and the famous mistress of King Louis XV

His closest friend, and maybe mistress, was Suzanne de Rougé, the Marquise du Plessis-Bellière.

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.

Catherine Henriette de Balzac d ' Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil ( 1579 – 1633 ) was the favourite mistress of Henry IV of France after Gabrielle d ' Estrées died.

Finally, in December 1772, the King gave his consent on the condition that the Marquise of Montesson would never become Duchess of Orléans or succeed to any other Orléans titles.

In a strange twist of fate, she ended her relationship with the King in the same way in which she started: used initially as a decoy for Louis and " Madame ", Louise now became a decoy for her own successor, as Louis made her share the Marquise de Montespan's apartments at the Tuileries to prevent the legal manœuvres of the Marquis de Montespan ( who wanted to get his wife back ) and to keep the court from gossiping

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

He was the son of Louis de Rohan-Chabot, Duc de Rohan, Prince de Leon and Marie Élisabeth du Bec-Crespin de Grimaldi, Marquise de Vardes.

Fontenelle and Houdar de la Motte were the great men of her celebrated salon, where one could also encounter Marie-Catherine d ’ Aulnoy, the poet Catherine Bernard, the Abbé de Bragelonne, Father Buffier, the Abbé de Choisy, Madame Dacier, the mathematician Dortous de Mairan, Fénelon, Hénault, Marivaux, the Abbé Mongault, Montesquieu, the lawyer Louis de Sacy ( one of the Marquise ’ s favorites ), the Marquis de Sainte-Aulaire, Baronne Staal, Madame de Tencin who received the Marquise ’ s guests at her death in 1733, or the Abbé Terrasson.

** Lü Xu ( 呂嬃 ), younger sister, Fan Kuai's wife, instated as Marquise of Linguang ( 臨光侯 ) in 184 BC.

* Catherine ( 1574 – 1595 ), Marquise d ' Isles

* Anne Paule Dominique ( 22 June 1766 – 29 January 1839 ), Marquise de Pouzols, Marquise de Montagu.

* Angélique Françoise d ' Assise Rosalie ( 1 August 1767 – 16 February 1833 ), Marquise de Grammont.

Jo-won ( Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont ) and Madam Jo ( Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil ) were in the film cousins ( Jo-won the younger cousin ), and it is revealed that Jo-won's first love was Madam Jo, whereas in the novel, they were rivals, yet using the same tools for their revenge: sex.

* Medora Vallambrosa, Marquise de Mores ( Medora von Hoffman ), wife of the Marquis de Mores and namesake of Medora, North Dakota

Born Henri Leonard de Fiennes in Sacramento, California, he was the son of an American actor and stage manager, Rhody Hathaway ( 1868 – 1944 ), and a Hungarian-born Belgian aristocrat, Marquise Lillie de Fiennes ( 1876 – 1938 ), who acted under the name Jean Hathaway.

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.

# Marquise ( d. c. 1279 ), married c. 1256 Henry II, Count of Rodez ( d. 1304 )

Charlotte was the youngest of the three daughters of Philippe de La Mothe Houdancourt, Duke of Cardona and maréchal de France ( d. 1657 ), and Louise de Prie, Marquise of Toucy, Duchess of La Motte Houdancourt, maréchale, governess to the children of France.

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.