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Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon Author

Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719) was the second wife and untitled queen of King Louis XIV of France. She became a powerful female figure at Versailles and founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis-in-Saint-Cyr, a boarding school for impoverished aristocratic girls. Theresa Varney Kennedy is a professor of French at Baylor University and the author of Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750). Paige Tierney is visiting assistant professor of French at Wake Forest University.