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MARQUISE DE JEANNE See also: rich but unscrupulous See also: father and an immoral See also: mother
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At the age of fifteen she was married to See also: Louis,
See also: marquis de Prie, and went with him to the See also: court of See also: Savoy at See also: Turin, where he was ambassador
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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 Bourbon
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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
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But when, in 1725, she sought to have Bourbon's See also: rival See also: Fleury exiled, her ascendancy came to an end
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After Fleury's recall and the banishment of Bourbon to See also: Chantilly Mme de Prie was exiled to Courbepine, where she committed suicide the next See also: year
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See M
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Thirion, Madame de Prie (See also: Paris, 1905)
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PRIE-DIEU, literally " pray See also: God," strictly a prayer desk, primarily intended for private use, but often found in churches of the See also: European continent
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It is a small ornamental wooden desk furnished with a sloping shelf for books, and a cushioned kneeling piece
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It appears not to have received its See also: present name until the early See also: part of the 17th century
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At that See also: period in France a small See also: room or oratory was sometimes known by the same name
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A similar See also: form of chair, in domestic furniture, is called prie-dieu by See also: analogy
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