MARQUISE DE MADELEINE DE SOUVRE See also:SABLE (1599—1678)
See also:French writer, was See also:born in 1599, the daughter of Gilles de Souvre, See also:marquis de Courtenvaux, See also:tutor of 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 XIII., and See also:marshal of See also:France
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In 1614 she married Philippe See also:Emmanuel de See also:Laval, marquis de See also:Sable, who died in 1640, leaving her in somewhat straitened circumstances
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With her friend the comtesse de St Maur she took rooms in the See also:Place Royale, See also:Paris, and established a See also:literary See also:salon
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Here originated that class of literature of which the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld are the best-known example
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The Maximes of the marquise de Sable were in fact composed before those of La Rochefoucauld, though not published till after her See also:death
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In 1655 she retired, with the comtesse de St Maur, to the See also:Convent of See also:Port Royal See also:des Champs, near Marly, removing in 1661, when that See also:establishment was closed, to Auteuil
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In 1669 she took up her See also:residence in the Port Royal convent in Paris, where she died on the 16th of See also:January 1678
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