Françoise Maintenon
1635 – 1719
French

Wife of Louis XIV, she was a power at the greatest court in Europe.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1626–1696Madame de Sévigné
1675–1755Louis Saint-Simon
1585–1642Armand Richelieu
1626–1700Armand Rancé
1689–1755Charles Montesquieu
1638–1715Louis XIV
1613–1680François La Rochefoucauld
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1647–1706Pierre Bayle