Marquise de Caylus

Her father was a cousin of Madame de Maintenon, who brought up Marthe-Marguerite like her own daughter.

Her elder son, Anne-Claude-Philippe (1692–1765), was also a man of letters and an archaeologist.

Madame de Caylus left piquant and valuable memoirs of the court of Louis XIV and the house of St. Cyr.

They were translated into English by Elizabeth Griffith as Memoirs, anecdotes, and characters of the court of Lewis XIV.

Translated from Les Souvenirs, or recollections of Madame de Caylus (1770).