Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame Scarron, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife to King Louis XIV of France, 1635-1719. She wears a black hood over a tall lace and ribbon headdress (Fontange), a mantua with train of blue velvet with ermine, with a bejeweled ermine petticoat. After an enamel in the editor's collection. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.

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