Jean Cottereau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔtʁo]; 1458 – February 8, 1530)[1] was the royal treasurer to Louis XII of France.
Later, it was remade into a fashionable country house for Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV.
[2] Clément Marot's verse epitaphs, "De Messire Jean Cotereau, chevalier, seigneur de Maintenon", are included in his Cimitière (nos.
In his Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (published 1849/50), François-René de Chateaubriand wrote that "Marot, in his Cimetière, maintains that Cottereau was too honest a man for a financier.
One of Cottereau's daughters brought the Maintenon domain into the d'Angennes family".