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Noun: Marquise de Maintenon
  1. French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
    - Maintenon, Françoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon

Type of: consort, marchioness, marquise

Encyclopedia: Marquise de Maintenon