Marie Anne De Mailly
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest and prettiest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France.
Read more about Marie Anne De Mailly: Early Life, Family and Marriage, Mistress To Louis XV
Famous quotes containing the words marie and/or anne:
“They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering leaves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.”
—“E. B.,” U.S. farmer. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)