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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 316 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGNES See also:BERTHELOT DE PLENEUF See also:PRIE (1698-1727)  , See also:French adventuress, was the daughter of a See also:rich but unscrupulous See also:father and an immoral See also:mother . At the See also:age of fifteen she was married to See also:Louis, See also:marquis de See also:Prie, and went with him to the See also:court of See also:Savoy at See also:Turin, where he was See also:ambassador . She was twenty-one when she returned to See also:France, and was soon the declared See also:mistress of Louis See also:Henri, duc de See also:Bourbon . During his See also:ministry (1723-1725) she was in several respects the real ruler of France, her most notable See also:triumph being the See also:marriage of Louis XV. to See also:Marie Leszczynska instead of to Mlle de See also:Vermandois . But when, in 1725, she sought to have Bourbon's See also:rival See also:Fleury exiled, her ascendancy came to an end . After Fleury's recall and the banishment of Bourbon to See also:Chantilly Mme de Prie was exiled to Courbepine, where she committed See also:suicide the next See also:year . See M . H . Thirion, Madame de Prie (See also:Paris, 1905) . PRIE-DIEU, literally " pray See also:God," strictly a See also:prayer See also:desk, primarily intended for private use, but often found in churches of the See also:European See also:continent . It is a small ornamental wooden desk furnished with a sloping shelf for books, and a cushioned kneeling piece . It appears not to have received its See also:present name until the See also:early See also:part of the 17th See also:century .

At that See also:

period in France a small See also:room or See also:oratory was sometimes known by the same name . A similar See also:form of See also:chair, in domestic See also:furniture, is called prie-dieu by See also:analogy .

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