Suzanne, Marquise du Plessis-Belliere et de Fay les Nemours, née de Bruc de Monplaisir (c1605 - 1705) was the wife of Jacques de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière

Jacques de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière

Jacques de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière was a French General , very close to King Louis XIV and his minister, Mazarin.Jacques de Rougé was Marquis du Plessis-Bellière from 1651 till his death. He married Suzanne, Marquise du Plessis-Bellière, ne de Bruc de Monplaisir....

, Marquis du Plessis-Bellière, of the House Rougé

Rougé

Rougé is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.It lies near Rennes.The name "Rougé" comes from the Latin "Rubiacus", means the red place...

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She was one of France's most famous women of her time. She had a court of artists and statesmen around her.

She was often in opposition to the King Louis XIV, and inspired with her adventurous life some well known stories, such as Angélique

Angelique (series)

Angelique is series of 13 French historical adventure books by the novelist duo Anne and Serge Golon. The first 10 books have been adapted into English while numbers 11-13 have not...

. She was called Elise by Dumas in his Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. She was widowed in 1654. She was very close to Nicolas Fouquet

Nicolas Fouquet

Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV...

, and it was she who organized his social engagements, not Madame Fouquet.

When Fouquet was arrested in 1661, she was kept under house arrest until 1665.