Marie Madeleine Agnès de Gontaut

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Marie Madeleine Agnès de Gontaut (1653–1720) was a French aristocrat.[1]


A daughter of General François de Gontaut, Marquis of Biron and Baron of Saint Blancard and his wife Élisabeth de Cossé. She was the unofficial lover of king Louis XIV of France in 1680–1683. She married in 1688 Marquis Louis de Louet de Calvisson, Marquis of Nogaret and thus ended her court service. Widowed in 1690. She returned to the court and was 1692-1712 dame du palais in the year Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, whose personal friend she became; when she died in 1712, she settled in a convent


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  1. ^ Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Mémoires complets et authentiques du duc de Saint-Simon sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la régence. T. 1,, A. Sautelet, Paris, 1829-1830