Madame de Maintenon

Famous quotes containing the words madame de and/or madame:

    “Madame d’Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by him as a woman.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “There was also a Nonne, a prioresse,
    That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy;
    Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy.
    And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)