main tenon

noun

Marquise de ( Françoise d'Aubigné ) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.

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Maintenon (French mɛ̃tnɔ̃)

—n
	Marquise de, title of Françoise d'Aubigné. 1635--1719, the mistress and, from about 1685, second wife of Louis XIV

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