biography
pronunciation:
[duhlaw(r)m]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1613–50)
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| biography:
| Courtesan, born in Paris, France, where at an early period of her life her beauty and wit gathered a group of high-born lovers round her - among them the 1st Duke of Buckingham, Saint-Evremond, the Duc de Brissac and the Duc de Gramont. Even Richelieu was not insensible to her charms, and caused her to be separated from the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, whose mistress she was until he was executed in 1642. During the early days of the Fronde uprising (1648–53) her house was the rallying-point of its chiefs, and Mazarin was about to imprison her when she suddenly died. |
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