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.

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

" Ninon always had crowds of adorers but never more than one lover at a time, and when she tired of the present occupier, she said so frankly and took another.

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.

* 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.

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.

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 took the money, and sent a friend instead.

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.

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.

* 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.

This eventually caused a retroperitoneal abscess and paralytic ileus from which he died following operation.

Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

On Good Friday 1158, bishop Asser of Roskilde died, and Absalon was eventually elected bishop of Roskilde on Zealand with the help of Valdemar, as the king's reward for the Hvide family support.

Dilger eventually fled to Madrid, Spain, where he died during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

Constantine was eventually trapped at Aquileia, where he died, leaving Constans to inherit all of his brother ’ s former territories – Hispania, Britannia and Gaul.

After she died, Young tried several jobs, and eventually moved in with friends John and Ruth Benedum and did odd jobs for them.

He never fully recovered and eventually died of an apparent stroke, his second, on 26 January 1823, aged 73.

She eventually died of tuberculosis, on 19 December 1848 at around two in the afternoon.

While all of the Japanese soldiers on the nearby Islands fought and died to the last man, the Japanese soldiers on Lagos survived the war and eventually returned to Japan.

After Telemann's eldest son Andreas died in 1755, he assumed the responsibility of raising Andreas ' son Georg Michael Telemann, who eventually became a composer.

While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth ’ s mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered.

When Henry II died in 1024, Conrad II, first of the Salian Dynasty, was then elected king in 1024 only after some debate among dukes and nobles, which would eventually develop into the collegiate of Electors.

Children who passed muster at first but were later rejected were taken to a ghetto in Łódź, where most of them eventually died.

She had several rather fanatic followers, including Guibert of Gembloux, who wrote frequently to Hildegard and eventually became her secretary after Volmar died in 1173.

His parents had separated, and Belmont died in 1934 in debt, which Bogart eventually paid off.

In the book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact ( 1511 ) to the closing of the frontier ( 1890 ), and determined that 7, 193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by whites, and 9, 156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.

* The armed seizure of six-year-old Elián González and his return to his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba ; Elián's mother and stepfather had died in a dangerous trip by sea, and though his U. S. relatives had lost custody to his father in court, local officials did not enforce the ruling.

Elizabeth Weissmüller eventually filed for, and was granted, a divorce ( various biographies erroneously state that Weissmüller's father died of tuberculosis leaving her a widow ).

2, 848 Luxembourgers eventually died fighting in the German army.

During this time, the Ayyubid sultan died, and a sudden power shift took place, as the sultan's wife Shajar al-Durr set events in motion which were to make her Queen, and eventually place the Egyptian army of the Mamluks in power.

Muslim conservatives in Malé eventually ousted his government, and during a riot over food shortages, Didi was beaten by a mob and died on a nearby island.

In 1664, a second attempt was made, but this one also ended badly as the men chosen for the job abandoned their sick commander, Van Niewland, without proper treatment, and the latter eventually died.

However, those who participated in the feast eventually died, either from food poisoning or from natural causes.

Initially, Henry refused to see Beatrice, but eventually he had her imprisoned in rough conditions ; the young Frederick was treated more appropriately, but he died in Henry's custody nonetheless ( the rumours that he was murdered are baseless ).