Montespan, Marquise de, mistress of Louis XIV.; a woman noted for her wit and beauty; bore the king eight children; was supplanted by Madame de Maintenon (q.v.); passed her last days in religious retirement (1641-1707).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Montenegro * Montesquieu, Baron de