 | Annie Forbes Bush - France - 1843 - 424 pages
...unlike most of the royal favourites, was never injurious to the state; she neither bestowed favours nor exercised vengeance. Once only she participated...was condemned to be brought into contact with all hA husband's favourites in consequence of their functions obliging them to have apartments in the palace.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...four sisters, daughters of the Marquis de Nesle, who became successively mistresses of Louis XV. She was married at the age of seventeen to the Marquis...la Tournelle, who left her a widow at twenty-three. She far surpassed all her sisters in personal charms, and was an accomplished musician. Madame de Chateauroux... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Women - 1857 - 1030 pages
...sisters, daughters of the Marquis de Nesle, who became successively mistresses of Louis the Fifteenth. She was married at the age of seventeen to the Marquis...la Tournelle, who left her a widow at twenty-three. She far surpassed all her sisters in personal charms, and was an accomplished musician. Madame de Chateauroux... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 810 pages
...sisters, daughters of the Marquis de Nesle, who became successively mistresses of Louis the Fifteenth. She was married at the age of seventeen to the Marquis...la Tournelle, who left her a widow at twenty-three. She far surpassed all her sisters in personal charms, and was an accomplished musician. Madame de Chatcauroux... | |
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... people of that city, whom she is endeavouring to aid in the improvements which their intercourse with the Americans has taught them to value. CHATEAUROUX, MARIE ANNE, DUCHESS DE, WAS one of four sisters, daughters of the Marquis de Nesle, who became... 