NOUN
- French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
How To Use Maintenon In A Sentence
- Inspired by ideas that Fénelon would soon espouse in his treatise "De l'éducation des filles" (1687), Mme de Maintenon showed ingenious insight in developing a forward-looking and lasting pedagogical model. Louis XIV's Secret Wife
- It may have often been placed on her table when Maintenon was paying the penalty of her hard-earned greatness by the painful task of endeavouring -- as she acknowledged -- to amuse a man who was no longer amusable. The Idler in France
- Madame de Maintenon's difficulty (and with fewer resources to meet it) of trying to amuse a man who was not amusable. Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
- La reine y alloit souvent de Fontainebleau, et prenoit grand soin du bien-être du couvent; et Mad. de Maintenon après elle. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
- Louis XIV had already given her pensions and gifts of money in appreciation for her care of his children, and in February of the next year he conferred upon her the title marquise de Maintenon. Louis XIV's Secret Wife
- The Renaissance livened up considerably the severe lines of the Gothic chateaux of France, and though invariably the marks of the transition are visible to the expert eye it is also true, as in the case of Maintenon, that there is frequently a homogeneousness which is sufficiently pleasing to effectually cover up any discrepancies which might otherwise be apparent. Royal Palaces and Parks of France