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MIGNOT, CLAUDINE FRANCOISE [commonly called See also:MARIE] (c. 1617-1711) , See also:French adventuress, was See also:born near See also:Grenoble, at Meylan. At the See also:age of sixteen she attracted the See also:notice of the secretary of See also:Pierre See also:des Portes d'Amblerieux, treasurer of the See also:province of Dauphiny, and Amblerieux promised to promote their See also:marriage. He married the girl himself, however, and See also:left her his See also:fortune. His will was disputed by his See also:family, and Claudine went to See also:Paris in 1653 to secure its fulfilment. She sought the See also:protection of See also:Francois de 1'H8pital, See also:marshal of See also:France, then a See also:man of seventy-five. He married her within a See also:week of their first See also:meeting, and after seven years of marriage died leaving her See also:part of his See also:estate. By a third and morganatic marriage in 1672 with See also:John Casimir, ex-See also:king of See also:Poland, a few See also:weeks before his See also:death, she received a third fortune. Immediately on her marriage with Amblerieux she had begun to educate herself, and her See also:wealth and talents assured her a welcome in Paris. She retired in her old age to a Carmelite See also:convent in the See also:city, where she died on the 3oth of See also:November 1711. Her See also:history, very much modified, was the subject of a See also:play by See also:Bayard and See also:Paul See also:Duport, Marie Mignot (1829).

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