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Note 77 — II MADAME DE MAINTENON[73]

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Wife of Henri de Daillon, Comte and afterwards Duc du Lude, Grand-Master of the Artillery. In 1696 she was made principal lady-in-waiting (dame d’honneur) to the future Duchess of Burgundy. She was a Béthune by birth, the great-granddaughter of Sully.

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