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Marquise de Maintenon Biography
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719). Second wife of Louis XIV. "She had become an ardent Catholic and exerted a powerful religious influence over the King, and although keeping herself in the background was able to direct foreign policy and internal affairs in the interests of clericalism." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 692-693.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 449.
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