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Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, suo jure Duchess of Aiguillon (1604 – 17 April 1675) was a French aristocrat, also remembered for her charitable work and her patronage of artists and mathematicians.
Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, née en 1604 à Glénay et morte en 1675 à Paris, 2 e duchesse d'Aiguillon, est une salonnière française, et dame d'atours de la reine Marie de Médicis.
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Oct 11, 2021 · Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot du Pontcourlay was born in 1604. Her mother, Françoise du Plessis, was the eldest sister of the future cardinal and statesman. Her father, René de Vignerot, was a nobleman who had distinguished himself in battle and been rewarded by King Henry IV with a position at court.
Feb 28, 2023 · This is what makes Bronwen McShea’s new book, La Duchesse, so absorbing. It captures with vivid grace and detail the life of one of the most important, if unheralded, women in French history. Marie Madeleine de Vignerot was born in 1604 to a French aristocratic family of rural, relatively modest means.
Feb 28, 2023 · This is what makes Bronwen McShea’s new book, La Duchesse, so absorbing. It captures with vivid grace and detail the life of one of the most important, if unheralded, women in French history. Marie Madeleine de Vignerot was born in 1604 to a French aristocratic family of rural, relatively modest means.
Mar 7, 2023 · Thirty-eight-year-old Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot du Pont Courlay, titled the Duchesse d’Aiguillon and a Peer of France since 1638, had learned of her uncle’s worsening condition on Sunday. She had rushed across the Pont-Neuf in Paris from her stately home on the Rue de Vaugirard to stay with him at his colossal palace near the Louvre.
COPY ISBN. Much has been written about the French clergyman and statesman Cardinal Richelieu, but McShea ( Apostles of Empire) focuses on his favored niece, Marie de Vignerot, the daughter of Richelieu’s sister Françoise.
