Word: maintenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other mistresses,* enthroned Claretta ina resident villa linked by private phone to the Palazzo Venezia. The new favorite flaunted her power. She managed the Duce's fan mail, dragged him on shopping tours, hired & fired officeholders in what Corriere della Sera called the manner of a "second-rate Maintenon," responsible for the "intellectual degradation of her passionate friend...
...Carp at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV was said to resemble Madame de Maintenon to an extraordinary degree. The story was finally traced to Madame de Montespan...
Senator George is no rum-&-ruin imperialist. He knows that French Martinique is a dirty, uneconomic hole. That it is a place of open sewers and shoeless feet. That its desperate romantic crumbs-Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...