Definition of Duchesse de Valentinois

1. Noun. French noblewoman who was the mistress of Henry II; she had more influence over him than did his wife Catherine de Medicis (1499-1566).

Exact synonyms: Diane De Poitiers
Generic synonyms: Female Aristocrat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Duchesse De Valentinois

Duchamp
Duchampian
Duchenne
Duchenne's disease
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
Duchenne's sign
Duchenne's syndrome
Duchenne-Aran disease
Duchenne-Erb paralysis
Duchenne dystrophy
Duchenne smile
Duchesne
Duchess of Ferrara
Duchess of Windsor
Duchesse de Valentinois (current term)
Duck
Duckworth's phenomenon
Duckworth-Lewis method
Ducrey test
Dudley
Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore
Duesenberg
Duff's device
Duffy
Dufy
Dugald Stewart

Literary usage of Duchesse de Valentinois

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"To her inexpressible disgust, her husband, when he became king, presented it to the ' old hag,' Diane, Duchesse de Valentinois." Diane, pitting lonely at ..."

2. The Life of Marguerite D'Angoulême: Queen of Navarre, Duchesse D'Alençon and by Martha Walker Freer (1854)
"The faction of the duchesse de Valentinois, however, had now acquired supremacy; for the declining influence of Madame d'Estampes over the king was observed ..."

3. Catherine De' Medici and the French Reformation by Edith Helen Sichel (1905)
"There exists a strange picture in which an attendant is proffering a new-born princeling to the Duchesse de Valentinois as if to beg her for her patronage, ..."

4. Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1904)
"It is pretended, but not proved, that the Duchesse de Valentinois and Henry II. had a daughter, and that this Prince wished to make her legitimate, ..."

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