Saint-Simon noted " Ninon made friends among the great in every walk of life, had wit and intelligence enough to keep them, and, what is more, to keep them friendly with one another.

Jacqueline Kennedy admired Bohan's designs and had them adapted by Oleg Cassini and Chez Ninon.

Starting in the late 1660s she retired from her courtesan lifestyle and concentrated more on her literary friends — from 1667, she hosted her gatherings at l ' hôtel Sagonne, which was considered " the " location of the salon of Ninon de l ' Enclos despite other locales in the past.

It was no unusual thing to hear him in the course of one evening discourse on topics so various as: the influence of reasoning upon Goethe and Mozart, types of apprehension in listeners to symphonic music, sensations while looping the loop ( he was over 60 when he did so ), the painting of Guardi, ' co-ordination ' in a star golfer, Ninon de Lenclos, Conrad as a narrator

* Ninon de l ' Enclos ( 1615 – 1705 ): lover of the Prince of Condé and Gaspard de Coligny

Born Anne de Lenclos in Paris, she was nicknamed " Ninon " by her father at an early age.

Ninon eventually died at the age of ( at least ) 82, a very wealthy woman.

* Ninon de l ' Enclos at aelliott. com

The title of the novel is paraphrased in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake at 203. 21 as " Nanon L ' Escaut ", which also refers to the 17th-century French courtesan Ninon de l ' Enclos and to the Escaut River.

There he met Franz Liszt, at whose request he gave piano lessons to Louise-Constance " Ninon " de Gressy, the daughter of a wealthy lady named Mme Sainte-Marie.

She was a woman of considerable wit, and held her own at the court of Louis XIV, but her husband pursued his gallant exploits to the close of a long life, being, said Ninon de l ' Enclos, the only old man who could affect the follies of youth without being ridiculous.

Meanwhile he was a favored guest at some of the great literary salons, for example that of Marguerite de la Sablière, who introduced him to Jean de La Fontaine ; or at that of Ninon de Lenclos.

In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten years later the unmarried Ninon entered a convent, only to leave the next year.

Ninon took a succession of notable and wealthy lovers, including the king's cousin the Great Condé, Gaston de Coligny, and François, duc de La Rochefoucauld.

Ninon took the money, and sent a friend instead.

Anne " Ninon " de l ' Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos ( 10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705 ) was a French author, courtesan and patron of the arts.

Ninon de l ' Enclos is a relatively obscure figure in the English-speaking world, but is much better known in France where her name is synonymous with wit and beauty.

* 1886 – Ninon Vallin, French soprano ( d. 1961 )

Other modern-day Epicureans were Gassendi, Walter Charleton, François Bernier, Saint-Evremond, Ninon de l ' Enclos, Diderot, and Jeremy Bentham.

Among his early books was Contes à Ninon, published in 1864.

In the Historiettes he gives finished portraits of Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others ; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his work ; and he chronicles the scandals of which Ninon de l ' Enclos and Angélique Paulet were centres.

Ninon became Massenet's wife in 1866.

Even Massenet's marriage to Ninon helped him a great deal in securing commissions and garnering fame in important social circles.

Charlotte Ninon Coleman ( 3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001 ) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ), Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and her childhood roles of Sue in Worzel Gummidge and the character Marmalade Atkins.

To this succeeded the tragedy of Ninon in 1848, the romantic comedy of Tonietta in 1849, A Sacrifice in 1853 ; The Youngest in 1854.

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

He had lots of friends, then as always.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

He had always known how to find a bed, and on his own terms.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

He had always done well.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

-- In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky, and always as he wandered, he felt a stranger to their exultation.

`` Doesn't it ever bother you '', Warren had asked, `` to have people always asking you about your hands ''??

It was what anyone who had ever seen her had always expected her to do.

Back in Bavaria he had seen that gesture, and at that sight his heart had always died within him.

His image of the Virgin had always been that of a young woman, even as had his memory of his mother.

To him, Andrei Androfski had always been the living symbol of a Polish officer.

He always slept close to the wall so you had to lean to reach him.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.