The Marquise had a sister, and she was entitled, by the death of her relatives, to half the property.
The Marquise had undertaken these murders to please her lover.
A very poor woman, to whom I have sometimes given a little assistance, pretends to be a relation of theMarquise de Pompadour.
Why," said she, "is the Marquise so violent an enemy to the Jesuits?
Dreux d'Aubray but also the latter's two sons and other daughter should be poisoned, so that the marquise de Brinvilliers and himself might come into possession of the large family fortune.
As he left no heirs the police were called in, and discovered among his belongings documents seriously incriminating the marquise and La Chaussée.
Contemporary evidence describes the marquise at this time as a pretty and much-courted little woman, with a fascinating air of childlike innocence.
Look at me: since I have been Marquise de Santoval, I have been to all sorts of festivities, balls, and receptions, and yet I have not met the man I seek.
Have you been long in the Marquisede Santoval's service?
Léodgard, having learned from several persons that the Marquise de Santoval was in that room, was trying to force his way through the crowd and had succeeded in reaching a point within a few feet of the window where Valentine was.
Marquise de Santoval, who is said to be so beautiful, is Valentine--the woman whom I was to marry!
A few days ago, I was at a ball at Madame de Beaumont's, and the young Marquise de Santoval was there.
I am still in the service of Mademoiselle Valentine, who is now Marquise de Santoval; and you?
What would he say if he had seen the young Marquisede Santoval?
He turned and recognized Miretta, the young Marquise de Santoval's pretty lady's-maid.
All the passing, all the going and coming about him were powerless to divert his attention; his eyes did not wander from the Marquise de Santoval.
I no longer live there; since Mademoiselle Valentine de Mongarcin became Marquise de Santoval, we live on Rue Sainte-Avoie.
And Miretta will--will hand me what madame la marquise is generous enough to promise me?
The young Marquise de Santoval was in her dressing room, standing before a large Venetian mirror, which, in those days, filled the place of the modern psyche.
I knew that with madame la marquise I should not lose my time.
It was not very far off the time when Jelyotte was seen publicly sitting, in broad daylight, on the bed of the Marquise d'Epinay.
The marquise had entirely forgotten the fatal prediction, or, if she occasionally thought of it now, it was to wonder that she could ever have believed in it.
The beautiful poisoner, Marquise de Brinvilliers, must have suggested to Dumas his later portrait of Miladi, in the Three Musketeers, the mast celebrated of his woman characters.
His forgiveness was the fruit of his few years' seniority, said Miss Pollingray, whose opinion of the Marquise I cannot arrive at.
I could not get Miss Pollingray to tell me distinctly whether Madame la Marquise will be one of the guests.
That is the Marquise de Mazardouin--nee Louise de Riverolles.
The portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, which she had given Frederick as a mark of her favor, hangs on the wall, and smiles down upon this scene with its coquettish beauty.
I prefer to die like Cleopatra, rather than live like the Marquisede Pompadour.
It is Madame la Marquise going out; she ordered her carriage very early this morning," said Joseph.
Juliette must put these diamonds cleverly away with those of her mistress, so that la marquise may not suspect; and then her surprise will be the greater.
I have now but one fear, and that is, not to be able to prevent myself from falling at the feet of Madame la Marquise the first time I see her.
Tell me, then, at what hour was the king to meet the marquise in her room?
Yet Fontanges is six feet under a church crypt, and the marquise spent two hours with the king last week.
I am the Marquise de Montespan, and I am not one who forgets a slight.
By my faith, if the marquise has the spirit with which folk credit her, he may find that it was easier to win her than to slight her.
She had been placed in the charge of her maternal grandmother, the Marquise de Montrond, who had taken ship for Calais when the Court left London, leaving her royal mistress to weather the storm.
La Marquise has been dead for the last twenty years, but she won't own it.
A rare visit from her lovely half-sister, the Marquise de Montrond, had astonished her with the sight of a distinguished Parisienne, and left her wondering.
Regarding me as her own daughter, the Marquisehas lavished her bounties upon me almost to the exclusion of my own sweet Angela.
As Mademoiselle is not here, I'll take it back to him unopened; so have a care not to tell the old Marquise that I have been here.
The duchesse d'Aiguillon, who must have pitied the puerility of such a remark, gently endeavoured to reconcile me to it by reminding me that both the marquise de Pompadour and the cardinal de Richelieu had reposed upon that very couch.
There was amongst others a marquise de Beauvoir, the issue of a petty nobility, whom he paid with sums of gold, altho' she was not his mistress by title.
Only imagine what a rage this put the marquise de Beauvoir in: she stormed, wept, had a nervous attack.
The empress," said Louis XV, one day, "believes that things are still managed here as in the days of the marquise de Pompadour and the duc de Choiseul.
The marquise de 1' Hopital came to solicit my interest for the prince de Soubise, her lover.
A typical instance of the mixture of courage and tact in the young author is to be found in the attitude which he took up towards Voltaire with regard to the Marquise de Pompadour, without in the least offending his tempestuous friend.
You have perhaps known them in England, where, before their marriage, they resided for five years with their parents, the Marquis and Marquise de Courtin; and were often admired by the loungers in Bond Street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marquise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
