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| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV Veronica Buckley, 2009-09 Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden’s seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family’s fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to the center of power at Versailles, the most opulent and ambitious court in all Europe. At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatism—“a sort of human Z,” as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament. After Scarron’s death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and the King’s splendid mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, who made the young widow governess to her brood of illegitimate children. The appointment transformed Françoise’s life, but was fatal to the temperamental Athénaïs herself, with the King soon turning his attentions to the graceful governess. Françoise was raised to the nobility as Madame de Maintenon—and, unofficially, “Madame de Maintenant,” the lady of the moment. The acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the extraordinary story of Françoise’s progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of Louis’s secret wife and uncrowned Queen. An absolute ruler, Louis turned away his many other mistresses to live with Françoise only, trusting her as his closest confidante and remaining in love with her for forty years. Sparkling with the irresistible wit of contemporary chroniclers such as Madame de Sévigné, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form. In vibrant colors, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV paints a portrait of Europe in an age of violent change, and the Sun King’s France in the process of becoming its modern self. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Queen of Versailles Mark Bryant, 2020-10-22 Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the Times of Louis XIV, and the Regency Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon, 1902 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: France Under Louis XIV (Le Grand Siècle) Émile Bourgeois, 1897 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Louis XIV Josephine Wilkinson, 2019-03-05 This stylish and incisive narrative presents readers with a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating kings in European history. Louis XIV’s story has all the ingredients of a Dumas classic: legendary beginnings, beguiling women, court intrigue, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask, lavish court entertainments, the scandal of a mistress who was immersed in the dark arts, and a central character who is handsome and romantic, but with a frighteningly dark side to his character.Louis believed himself to be semi-divine. His self-identification as the Sun King, which was reflected in iconography by the sun god, Apollo, influenced every aspect of Louis’s life: his political philosophy, his wars, and his relationships with courtiers and subjects.As a military strategist, Louis’s capacity was ambiguous, but he was an astute politician who led his country to the heights of sophistication and power—and then had the misfortune to live long enough to see it all crumble away. As the sun began to set upon this most glorious of reigns, it brought a gathering darkness filled with the anguish of dead heirs, threatened borders, and a populace that was dangerously dependent upon—but greatly distanced from—its king. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Ronney Mourad, Dianne Guenin-Lelle, 2012 The first English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Guyon describes her confinement between 1695 and 1703 in various prisons, including the dreaded Bastille, and the introduction provides a comprehensive context for the historical, literary, and theological aspects of Guyon's writing. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: A Lust for Virtue Philip F. Riley, 2001-06-30 Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin. As a hot-blooded young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or to sin and, despite his cherished title of God's Most Christian King, violations of God's Sixth and Ninth Commandments never troubled him. Indeed, for the first two decades of his reign, he paraded a stream of royal mistresses before all of Europe and fathered sixteen illegitimate children. Yet, midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs, and letters, Riley describes the formation of Louis's narrow conscience and his efforts to safeguard his subjects' souls by attacking sin and infusing his kingdom with virtue, especially in Paris and at Versailles. Throughout his attack on sin, women--so-called Soldiers of Satan--were the special targets of the police. By the seventeenth century, fornication and adultery had become exclusively female crimes; men guilty of these sins were rarely punished as severely. Although unsuccessful, Louis's attack on sin clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin as well as the futility of enforcing a religiously inspired social policy on an irreverent, secular-minded France. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère Jean de La Bruyère, 2023-11-11 The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère by Jean de La Bruyère (translated by Henri Van Laun). Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Mystics of the Christian Tradition Steven Fanning, 2005-06-29 From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it. Full of colourful detail, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over two thousand years, and reveals the often sexual nature of these encounters with the divine. In this fascinating account, Fanning reveals how God's direct revelation to St Francis of Assisi led to his living with lepers and kissing their sores, and describes the mystical life of Margery Kempe who 'took weeping to new decibel levels'. Through presenting the lives of almost a hundred mystics, this broad survey invites us to consider what it means to be a mystic and to explore how people such as Joan of Arc had their lives determined by divine visions. Mystics of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive guide to discovering what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition actually were. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Philosophical and Literary Ideas of Mme de Staël and of Mme de Genlis Machteld De Poortere, 2007 If nearly two centuries have left the reputation of Mme de Staël intact, the same could not be said for Mme de Genlis who, despite several recent studies, remains unknown to critics and the general public. This book compares and contrasts the ideas of these two women who lived in the same period. It strives to emphasize the system of thought that was the basis for their reactions to the historical events of their time. This volume contains a new reading of the historical novels of Mme de Genlis, highlighting some Romantic aspects in her works. It shows that Mme de Genlis, who professed to hate Romanticism, was in reality strongly influenced by this movement. Finally, a comparison between Corinne and Delphine and La Duchesse de la Vallière and Madame de Maintenon underlines the importance of history for these two writers and the different ways in which they approached it in their work. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, 1874 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography Jennifer S. Uglow, 1999 The most comprehensive reference book of its kind, with more than 60 new entries in this third edition. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Women In 17th Century France Wendy Gibson, 1989-07-17 This book aims to trace the life of the seventeenth-century Frenchwoman from cradle to the grave through mainly contemporary primary sources which include just about everything from collections of laws to traveller's tales. Rather than reworking and refuting the twentieth-century experts in the field, the author works directly through from birth and childhood through matrimony, women at work, and in political life, manners and religion to conclusive death. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Protestant exiles from France in the reign of Louis XIV : or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland David Carnegie Agnew, 1874-01-01 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr Deborah Kauffman, 2018-07-24 The history of music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr — the famous convent school founded by Madame de Maintenon and established by Louis XIV in 1686 as a royal foundation — is both rich and intriguing; its large repertory of music was composed expressly for young female voices by important composers working within significant contemporary musical genres: liturgical chant, sacred motets, theatrical music, and cantiques spirituels. While these genres reflect contemporary styles and trends, at the same time the works themselves were made to conform to the sensibilities and abilities of their intended performers. Even as Jean-Baptiste Moreau's music for Jean Racine’s biblical tragedies Esther and Athalie shows a number of similarities to contemporary tragédies lyriques, it departs from that more public genre in its brevity, generally simpler solo writing, and the integral use of the chorus. The musical style of the choral numbers closely parallels that of other choral music in the repertory at Saint-Cyr. The liturgical chant sung in the church was composed by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, and is an example of plain-chant musical, a type of new ecclesiastical composition written during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, primarily for female religious communities in France. The large repertory of petits motets (short sacred Latin pieces for solo voice), mostly composed by Nivers and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, are simpler and more restrained than works by their contemporaries. A close study of the motets reveals much about changes to musical style and performance practices at Saint-Cyr during the eighteenth century. The cantique spirituel, a song with a spiritual text in the vernacular French language, played a significant role in both the education and recreation of the girls at Saint-Cyr. Cantiques composed for the girls vary widely in terms of their style and difficulty, ranging from simple strophic melodies to more sophisticated works in the style of contemporary airs. In all cases, the stylistic features of the music for Saint-Cyr reflect a careful consideration of the needs and capabilities of the young singers of the school, as well as an awareness of the rigorous requirements of Madame de Maintenon, who kept a close watch over the propriety of all things relating to the piety, behavior, and image of her charges. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Saint Pauls , 1870 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Dazzling Darkness James Harpur, 2025-04-10 A captivating journey through the lives of Christian mystics--from the early Church to the twentieth century. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: France and the Destruction of the Jesuits, 1759–65 Robert Aleksander Maryks, 2024-12-02 The second volume in the Anti-Jesuit Literature series at Brill casts a revealing light on a crucial moment in eighteenth-century France: the suppression of the Jesuits. Through the expert translation of three representative treatises by Jotham Parsons and Patricia M. Ranum, this collection delves into the heart of the conflict, presenting views from Jansenist-Gallican magistrates, conservative clerics, and Enlightenment thinkers. Edited with contextual commentary by Robert A. Maryks and Jotham Parsons, the volume not only navigates the complexities of the Jesuits’ decline but also places it in the context of the broader Enlightenment critique, exploring the intricate interplay between evolving ideas of governance, faith, and intellectual freedom. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Religious Origins of the French Revolution Dale K. Van Kley, 1996-01-01 Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious--even Christian--origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the diverse, often warring religious strands that influenced political events up to the revolution. Van Kley draws on a wealth of primary sources to show that French royal absolutism was first a product and then a casualty of religious conflict. On the one hand, the religious civil wars of the sixteenth century between the Calvinist and Catholic internationals gave rise to Bourbon divine-right absolutism in the seventeenth century. On the other hand, Jansenist-related religious conflicts in the eighteenth century helped to desacralize the monarchy and along with it the French Catholic clergy, which was closely identified with Bourbon absolutism. The religious conflicts of the eighteenth century also made a more direct contribution to the revolution, for they left a legacy of protopolitical and ideological parties (such as the Patriot party, a successor to the Jansenist party), whose rhetoric affected the content of revolutionary as well as counterrevolutionary political culture. Even in its dechristianizing phase, says Van Kley, revolutionary political culture was considerably more indebted to varieties of French Catholicism than it realized. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Bulletin Boston Public Library, 1891 Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library, the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896) |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Love Burning in the Soul James Harpur, 2005 The heart of the Christian faith is a direct encounter with God so profound that it can be referred to as union. It is an experience that cannot be described in words, but it can be glimpsed--in the radiant lives of the men and women called mystics. Here James Harpur presents the stories of some of the most influential Christian mystics from the past two thousand years. He provides their historical and ecclesiastical contexts, as well as appreciations of the unique contributions of each of them to the ongoing articulation of the way of love and union. Love Burning in the Soul is a comprehensive and highly readable survey of the great Christian mystical tradition for everyone. Included are: Clement of Alexandria * Gregory of Nyssa * John Scotus Eriugena * Bernard of Clairvaux * Hildegard of Bingen * Francis of Assisi * Mechtild of Magdeburg * Meister Eckhart * John Tauler * Jan van Ruysbroeck * Gregory Palamas * Richard Rolle * Julian of Norwich * Catherine of Siena * Jacob Boehme * George Fox * Teresa of �vila * Fran�ois F�nelon * Jean Pierre de Caussade * William Blake * Pierre Teilhard de Chardin * Thomas Merton * Many others |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The English Historical Review , 1886 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne , 1857 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Dukery Records Robert White (of Worksop, Eng.), 1904 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Dialogues and Addresses Madame de Maintenon, 2007-11-01 Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the urgent need to remedy the scandalous neglect of the education of women. In her writings as well as in her own model school at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon embodies the demand for educational reform as the key to the empowerment of women at the dawn of modernity. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, 1928 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, 1919 Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Dreaming in French Alice Kaplan, 2013-03-22 Originally published in hardcover in 2012. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Jacqueline Kennedy Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 2001 Catalog to accompany exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May-August 2001 and at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in fall 2001. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Woman's Record Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1874 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Woman's Record; or, sketches of all distinguished women from the Creation to A.D. 1854 ... Second edition Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1853 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Woman's Record, Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1855 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Woman's Record; or sketches of all distinguished women, from “the beginning” till A.D. 1850, arranged in four eras. With selections from female writers of every age Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1853 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Biography of Distinguished Women Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1876 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Women and the Politics of Self-representation in Seventeenth-century France Patricia Francis Cholakian, 2000 This book is an exploration of six neglected and under-valued self-narratives composed in the period stretching from the reign of Henri IV through that of Louis XIV. Cholakian reads these self-narratives as gestures of political resistance to the marginalization of women during the ancient regime.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Alphabetical Arrangement of Main Entries from the Shelf List Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library, 1960 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Ella Katharine Sanders, 1921 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston Boston Public Library, 1891 |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: Being Interior Nicholas D. Paige, 2001 Autobiography came into being when we began to see the self differently. |
| madame de bouvier louis xiv: The Virtues of Abandon Charly Coleman, 2014-07-01 France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the successive assaults of radical Christian mystics, philosophical materialists, and political revolutionaries. The Virtues of Abandon traces the aims and activities of these three seemingly disparate groups, and the current of anti-individualism that permeated theology, philosophy, and politics throughout the period. Fired by the desire to abandon the self, men and women sought new ways to relate to God, nature, and nation. They joined illicit mystic cults that engaged in rituals of physical mortification and sexual license, committed suicides in the throes of materialist fatalism, drank potions to induce consciousness-altering dreams, railed against the degrading effects of unfettered consumption, and ultimately renounced the feudal privileges that had for centuries defined their social existence. The explosive denouement was the French Revolution, during which God and king were toppled from their thrones. |
Madam or Madame? Which is Correct? - One Minute English
Madame is a respectful way to address a French woman that is married. It is considered to be the equivalent of Mrs. You can also use madame to address an older French lady regardless of …
Madame vs. Madam — What’s the Difference?
Nov 2, 2023 · Madame is the French term for a married or mature woman, while Madam is its English equivalent.
Madam or Madame | Difference & Use - QuillBot
Oct 8, 2024 · Madam (not Madame) is the correct spelling when addressing a woman with a high-ranking job by her official title in a letter or in person (e.g., Madam President, Madam …
MADAME Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MADAME is —used as a title equivalent to Mrs. for a married woman not of English-speaking nationality.
Madam vs. Madame: What’s the Difference?
Oct 2, 2023 · It's a term steeped in politeness and formality. On the other hand, "Madame" often maintains its French pronunciation when used in English and is typically reserved for specific …
Madam - Wikipedia
Madam (/ ˈ m æ d əm /), or madame (/ ˈ m æ d əm / or / m ə ˈ d ɑː m /), [1] is a polite and formal form of address for women in the English language, often contracted to ma'am [2] …
Madam vs. Madame - What's the Difference? - This vs. That
Madam and Madame are two honorific titles used to address women in different contexts. While they may seem similar at first glance, there are subtle differences in their usage and …
MADAME Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Madame definition: a French title of respect equivalent to “Mrs.”, used alone or prefixed to a woman's married name or title.. See examples of MADAME used in a sentence.
madame - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jun 8, 2025 · madame f (plural mesdames) a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used …
Madame | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Madame meaning: a title for a woman, esp. a married woman from France: . Learn more.
Madam or Madame? Which is Correct? - One Minute English
Madame is a respectful way to address a French woman that is married. It is considered to be the equivalent of Mrs. You can also use madame to address an older French lady regardless of …
Madame vs. Madam — What’s the Difference?
Nov 2, 2023 · Madame is the French term for a married or mature woman, while Madam is its English equivalent.
Madam or Madame | Difference & Use - QuillBot
Oct 8, 2024 · Madam (not Madame) is the correct spelling when addressing a woman with a high-ranking job by her official title in a letter or in person (e.g., Madam President, Madam …
MADAME Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MADAME is —used as a title equivalent to Mrs. for a married woman not of English-speaking nationality.
Madam vs. Madame: What’s the Difference?
Oct 2, 2023 · It's a term steeped in politeness and formality. On the other hand, "Madame" often maintains its French pronunciation when used in English and is typically reserved for specific …
Madam - Wikipedia
Madam (/ ˈ m æ d əm /), or madame (/ ˈ m æ d əm / or / m ə ˈ d ɑː m /), [1] is a polite and formal form of address for women in the English language, often contracted to ma'am [2] …
Madam vs. Madame - What's the Difference? - This vs. That
Madam and Madame are two honorific titles used to address women in different contexts. While they may seem similar at first glance, there are subtle differences in their usage and …
MADAME Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Madame definition: a French title of respect equivalent to “Mrs.”, used alone or prefixed to a woman's married name or title.. See examples of MADAME used in a sentence.
madame - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jun 8, 2025 · madame f (plural mesdames) a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used …
Madame | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Madame meaning: a title for a woman, esp. a married woman from France: . Learn more.
