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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).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duchesse De Valentinois
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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