What is "fontanges"

Usage examples of "fontanges".

All that I was soliciting for twelve years, Mademoiselle de Fontanges had only to desire for a week.

The Duchesse de Fontanges, doubtless, believed herself Queen, because she had the public homage and the King.

The Infanta reddened with disapproval, and persuaded herself, by way of consolation, that Fontanges had lost her senses or was on the road to madness.

Fifteen or twenty days before the death of Mademoiselle de Fontanges, my sister and I were taking a walk in the new woods of Versailles.

The first blow of the hammer was struck, by some inconceivable fortuity, at the moment when the Duchesse de Fontanges expired.

And after what has befallen Mademoiselle de Fontanges, we must consider ourselves as persons already numbered, who wait only for the call.

The King, consoled as he was for the death of the Duchesse de Fontanges, did not, on that account, return to that sweet and agreeable intimacy which had united us for the space of eleven or twelve years.

The King took as much pleasure in this sight as if Fontanges had been the heroine of the fete, and our ladies, to please him, made their hands sore in applauding.

Mademoiselle de Fontanges lay in her coffin, recovering from her confinement.

At the time of the temporary triumph of Mademoiselle de Fontanges, the spell which was over my eyes was dissipated.

But the Duchesse de Fontanges gave offence neither to the Archbishop of Paris nor to the Jesuits.

The Duchess of Fontanges must not enjoy her victory, nor must Louis escape punishment for his faithlessness.

Two days afterwards, Mademoiselle de Fontanges was seen in the salon of the grand table.

Mademoiselle de Fontanges, given to the King by her shameless family, feigned love and passion for the monarch, as though he had returned by enchantment to his twentieth year.

The unexpected and almost sudden decease of Mademoiselle de Fontanges had singularly moved the King.