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Jean Cottereau was the royal treasurer to Louis XII of France. He rebuilt the old castle in Maintenon, transforming it into the Château de Maintenon. Later, it was remade into a fashionable country house for Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV. [1]
Clément Marot's verse epitaphs, "De Messire Jean Cotereau, chevalier, seigneur de Maintenon", are included in his Cimitière (nos. viii, ix, and x).
- ^ Gibson, Charles (1906). Among French Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural France (PDF). pp. 279, 280. ISBN 9781357549053.
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Jean Cottereau was the royal treasurer to Louis XII of France. He rebuilt the old castle in Maintenon, transforming it into the Château de Maintenon. Later, it was remade into a fashionable country house for Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV. [1]
Clément Marot's verse epitaphs, "De Messire Jean Cotereau, chevalier, seigneur de Maintenon", are included in his Cimitière (nos. viii, ix, and x).
- ^ Gibson, Charles (1906). Among French Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural France (PDF). pp. 279, 280. ISBN 9781357549053.