* 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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 was an accomplished woman with a good eye for Rococo interiors.

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.

As a result, he established links with individuals like Chateaubriand, the Marquise of Coustine.

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

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.

* Tyler Foster ( Marquise Wilson ) – Mark's next-door neighbor, who Mark saw as an annoyance in the first two seasons, and saw as a little brother in later episodes ; was best friends with Nicole Lee after she is introduced ; he had a crush on Vanessa, which was referenced to several times, but also was briefly infatuated with Geneva ( Seasons 2 – 5 ; recurring Season 1 )

They then headed out on a co-headlining tour with Dredg with revolving support from Good Old War, Zechs Marquise and As Tall As Lions.

On January 4, 2010 the band announced some U. S. tour dates starting in March with support from Zechs Marquise and The Builders And The Butchers.

They built a second, La Marquise, the next year, with a more conventional steering and rear wheel drive, capable of seating four.

During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine, at the Château de Sceaux, was amusing itself with frivolities, and when that of the Duc d ’ Orléans, at the Palais-Royal, was devoting itself to debauchery, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert passed for the temple of propriety and good taste, in a reaction against the cynicism and vulgarity of the time.

She went on to appear as Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with Jan Peerce, the Marquise of Berkenfeld in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment with Lily Pons, Mallika in Léo Delibes's Lakmé, Feodor in Boris Godunov, Annina in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Bizet's Carmen.

* Her Grace The Marquise of Jumilhac ( 1874 – 1879 )

* Her Grace The Duchess of Richelieu and Fronsac, Marquise of Jumilhac ( 1879 – 1889 )

* Her Serene Highness Princess Alice, The Princess of Monaco, Duchess of Richelieu, Fronsac, Valentinois, Mazarin, Mayenne and Estouteville, Princess of Château-Porcien, Marquise of Jumilhac, Baux-de-Provence, Guiscard and Chilly, Countess of Carladès, Thorigny, Longjumeau, Ferrette, Belfort, Thann and Rosemont, Baronness of Buis, Saint-Lô, la Luthumière, Hambye, Massy, le Calvinet and Altkirch, Lady of Saint-Rémy, Matignon and Issenheim.

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.

de: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné

This was elaborated upon in a 1965 Priory document by stating it was Abbé Antoine Bigou, one of Saunière's predecessor curés at Rennes-le-Château, who hid the parchments in 1790 in the hollow pillar that supported the church altar, after finding out about the secret of Rennes-le-Château on 17 January 1781 at the deathbed of Marie de Negri d ' Ables, Marquise d ' Hautpoul-Blanchefort.

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

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.

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.

: Louise Marie Seguier, Marquise d ' O in 1641, had issue

* Marquise Lepage, Marie s ' en va-t-en ville

Marie Madeleine Marguerite d ' Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, 1676, after her imprisonment, portrait by Charles LeBrun.

* 1997: Marquise ( dir: Véra Belmont ) as Marie

Marie Madeleine Marguerite d ' Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, 1676, after her imprisonment, portrait by Charles LeBrun.

* Marie de Broglio, Marquise de Canilhac, client of la Voisin ; never bought to trial.