[Cincinna]

Francoise d’Aubigne. later later la Veuve Scarron, later Madame de Maintenon was a Calvinist. Her piety and devotion were known throughout France.

Henry? I think you have your Kings of France mixed up!

[muawiyah]

I was getting my best stuff from "http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Maintenon" and the concentration required to track the French against the English translation just to find the dates of her involvement with Louis XIV (with precision) definitely made me lose sight of which French king I was pointing to.

I definitely liked the intro to the Wiki piece though ~ it began: "Si Mme de Montespan pensa à elle pour devenir la gouvernante des bâtards royaux, c'était parce que la veuve Scarron avait su la divertir et qu'elle était ..." and when you got one like that on the line you know it's gonna' get down and nasty before you know it.

Now, about this ol'gal being a Calvinist, her father renounced such things just before he murdered her mother.

These people were such sweethearts ~ just who the heck let her get near the Court?