[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?

[JRandomFreeper]

Things were sorta rough back then. But it was a long time ago.

Maybe we could cut them some slack.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Which reminds me. Teddy Kennedy is still dead. He's part of history. Just like Louis 14th and Caesar Augustus.

Some things just give you a warm fuzzy.

/johnny

[Constitutions Grandchild]

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

The same type of person who let Van Jones into the White House — the King. ;-)

[Cincinna]

Try this.. WIKI in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Maintenon

Quite detailed and extensive bio of M<adame de Maintenon.