1877 December 15, Emily Crawford, “M. Thiers: A Sketch from Life”, inLittell’s Living Age, volume CXXXV / fifth series, volume XX, number1748, Boston, Mass.: Littell and Gay,page679, column 2:
Ary Scheffer, the drawing-master of the young Orleans princesses, offered to go with Thiers and procure him an audience of the duc orduchesse, or Madame Adélaïde.
“1st September, 1680. We heard at our abbey [of Livry] the triumphs, the trumpetings and the music of Chelles at the consecration of the abbess. It is said that thefair beauty thought she was poisoned, and that gave her a right to have guards; she is still languishing, but so full of her grandeur that you must imagine something precisely contrary to that little violet [La Vallière], who hid herself in the grass, and was ashamed of being a mistress, a mother, and aduchesse; that will never be the model.”—Mme de Sévigné.
Among the guests are Léon Bourgeois, president of the Chamber of Deputies, the Italian, German and Russian ambassadors, comtesse Greffulhe, the grande-duchesse Vladimir with comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné, several comtes, comtesses, ducs andduchesses, Anatole France, Gaston Calmette, the baronne Gustave de Rothschild and Reynaldo Hahn, who sings at the piano when the initial hubbub has died down.
2022, Belinda Scerri, “‘Instructing herself by fad or fancy’: Depictions and Fictions ofConnoisseuses andFemmes Savantes in Eighteenth-Century Paris”, in Beatrijs Vanacker, Lieke van Deinsen, editors,Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe, Leuven:Leuven University Press,→ISBN, part II (Types and Models of Female Intellectual Authority),page187:
She was the eighth child of the duc andduchesse of Enghien and, as a member of the reigning Bourbon house, was styled aprincesse du sang, or princess of the blood.
1601, Thomas Danett, transl.,The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, London:[…]Ar. Hatfield, for I. Norton, page147:
For the ſaid Lord of Chaumont, went himſelfe peaceably through the countrie with a good band of men to Rouure, from whence he led theDucheſſe of Sauoy and all hir traine to the next place of the Kings dominions. Before the diſpatch of theDucheſſes laſt meſſenger, the King was departed from Lions[…]
1611,Ed[ward] Grimeston,A Generall Historie of France, Written byIohn de Serres vnto the Yeare .1598. Much Augmented and Continued vnto This Present, out of the Most Approoued Authors That Haue Written of that Subiect.,[…]George Eld, page1220:
The Lord of Ragny carryed her in the place ofDianaDucheſſe of Angouleſme, who repreſented theInfanta Iſabella Clara Eugenia, Archducheſſe of Auſtria, being followed by the daughters ofRohan,Montmorencie, andMayenne, who were Virgins, and theDucheſſes of Rohan, Suilly, and others.
The people departed, and the Duke andDucheſſe returned, andDon Quixote with them to the Caſtle,Toſilos was ſhut vp,Donna Rodriguez and her daughter were moſt happy, to ſee that one way or other, that buſineſſe ſhould end in marriage, andToſilos hoped no leſſe. CHAP. LVII.How Don Quixotetooke his leaue of the Duke, and what befell him with the witty wanton Altiſidora,theDucheſſes Damozell.
duchesse satin, duchesse(soft, heavy, and glossy satin cloth produced with a satin weave with fine silk threads, now used also of similar cloth that is made with synthetic fibers)
