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Saint-Cyr

convent, Saint-Cyr, France

Also known as: Maison Royale de Saint-Louis

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establishment of school

In education: Female education
…a school in 1686 at Saint-Cyr near Versailles—a higher school principally for orphan girls descended from noble families. Besides such basic subjects as reading and writing, the girls were prepared for their future lives as wives and mothers or as members of genteel professions. In 1692 this school was taken…
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role of Maintenon

In Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon
At Saint-Cyr, near Paris, she founded the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis (known simply as Saint-Cyr), an institution for the education of impoverished young women of the nobility (1686). Jean Racine’s dramatic poem Esther was written for performance at the school. At first Saint-Cyr was considered fashionable.…
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