A boarding-school opened by Madame de Maintenon, morganatic wife of Louis XIV, for poor young girls from the nobility. |
A morganatic marriage is one between a member of the royal house and a wife not of equal birth, in which the wife does not take her husband's rank. |
As such, we are interested first in texts that critically examine the platonic pact set between 'Poulou' and his 'little morganatic spouse. |
By solidarity, many ecclesiastics have striven to anchor in the western memory the idea that it was only a despicable morganatic romance. |
The royals may be forced to contemplate a quiet, morganatic marriage. |
So she was a grand duchess, or at least the morganatic wife of a grand duke! |