MARQUISE DE JEANNE See also: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
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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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