Word: maintenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled so much better than the kings? It is because men govern under women's guidance, whereas women rule by the advice...
...what was literally an open session and a standing vote. And the five articles of complaint are but a fire-screen behind which rages the feeling against efficient Mrs. Hammonds, the Governor's secretary, who is alleged to combine the more interesting qualities of Rasputin and Mme. de Maintenon. Her influence is attributed to the fact that she is the head of her employer's chapter of the Order of Rosicrucians. Of this order, whose members have a proper disregard of temporal things extending in this instance to include the legislature, the Wandering Jew is the most famous member...
...subject at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 11. At the same time, Professor Wright will give a rival attraction to vagabonds in Harvard 1, when he talks on Esther and Athalie, the two plays which Racine wrote near the end of his life for Madame de Maintenon's school...
...hero, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, might or might not recognize himself in the completely noble explorer here exhibited. He might be embarrassed by his courage, amused by his asceticism, surprised by the glossy perfection of his friends and enemies-Frontenac, Tonty, Mmes. de Montespan and de Maintenon, Joliet, Marquette, de Laval and the rest. But he would appreciate that, romancing apart, a full historical record of his efforts to build a Mississippi kingdom for France was what the author patiently sought, thoroughly contrived...
...openly practiced. The King, indeed, set an example to the Court by his amours with the beautiful La Valliére and later with Madame de Montespan. But after the Queen's death and after the King had fallen a victim to the wiles of Madame de Maintenon, the whole Court became devout, and the courtiers remained libertine in Paris and became devout at Versailles. All this Madame's letters show most clearly...