Maintenon

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(mant nōn′)

Maintenon, Marquise de (born Françoise d' Aubigné) 1635-1719; 2d wife of Louis XIV

See Maintenon in American Heritage Dictionary 4

French consort of Louis XIV. The widow of French writer Paul Scarron, she secretly married the king (c. 1685) after the death of his first wife.
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