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CLAUDINE FRANCOISE [commonly called See also: born near See also: Grenoble, at Meylan
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At the age of sixteen she attracted the See also: notice of the secretary of See also: Pierre See also: des Portes d'Amblerieux, treasurer of the province of Dauphiny, and Amblerieux promised to promote their See also: marriage
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He married the girl himself, however, and See also: left her his See also: fortune
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His will was disputed by his See also: family, and Claudine went to See also: Paris in 1653 to secure its fulfilment
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She sought the See also: protection of See also: Francois de 1'H8pital, marshal of See also: France, then a See also: man of seventy-five
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He married her within a week of their first meeting, and after seven years of marriage died leaving her See also: part of his estate
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By a third and morganatic marriage in 1672 with See also: John Casimir, ex-
See also: king of Poland, a few
See also: weeks before his See also: death, she received a third fortune
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Immediately on her marriage with Amblerieux she had begun to educate herself, and her See also: wealth and talents assured her a welcome in Paris
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She retired in her old age to a Carmelite convent in the city, where she died on the 3oth of See also: November 1711
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Her See also: history, very much modified, was the subject of a See also: play by Bayard and See also: Paul Duport, See also: Marie Mignot (1829)
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