D’HAUSSONVILLE, HANOTAUX, G., Souvenirs sur Madame de Maintenon. Madame de Maintenon a Saint Cyr dernieres lettres a Madame de Caylus/Memoire et lettres inedites de Mademoiselle d’Aumale.

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Paris, Calman-Levy, [1904],complete set in two volumes, lxxxvi,336+300pp. (partly uncut) portrait frontispiece of Mme la Marquise de Quelus and in second volume portrait of Madame Scarron, attractive half leather bindings, marbled boards, gilt lettering and orhnaments on spine, Françoise d'Aubigné (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon, was a French noblewoman who secretly married King Louis XIV. Although she was never considered queen of France, she was one of the King's closest advisers and the royal children's governess. In 1684, she founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school for girls from poorer noble families.