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Mme de Maintenon (Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de),   
mistress and later wife of Louis XIV.
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Mme de Maintenon (Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de), mistress and later wife...

Castle of Bussy-Rabotin, where Count Roger de Rabutin  
spent 16 years of exile from the court of Louis XIV.   
Before his banishment he spent one year in the Bastille
prison, mainly for his book "Histoire Amoureuse des    
Gaules," describing life at the court of Versailles.
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Castle of Bussy-Rabotin, where Count Roger de Rabutin spent 16 years of exile...

Bussy-Rabutin Castle, the Rotunda with the portraits   
of those ladies at the Court of Louis XIV, which       
the banished Count Roger de Rabutin despised most.
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Bussy-Rabutin Castle, the Rotunda with the portraits of those ladies at the C...

Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705), famous courtesan at      
the court of  Louis XIV. She was renowned for her      
beauty and for her erudition. Her house was a centre   
of literary life.
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Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705), famous courtesan at the court of Louis XIV....