Marie-Claire de Fleix Marie-Claire de Fleix Marie-Claire de Fleix née "de Bauffremont" (1618–1680) was a French courtier. She served as "Première dame d'honneur" to the queen dowager of France, Anne of Austria, from 1643 until 1666. She was the daughter of Henri de Bauffremont, marquise de Senecey, and Marie-Catherine de Senecey, and married to Jean Baptiste Gaston de Foix, comte de Fleix (1617–1646), in 1637. Her mother was a favorite of queen Anne who had been banished from court by Cardinal Richelieu, and when queen Anne became regent in 1643, she appointed Marie-Catherine de Senecey royal governess and her daughter to the office
Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais, (born 5 October 1939) is a French Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. Blais was born to a blue collar family in Quebec City. She studied at a convent school, but had to interrupt her education to seek employment. At the age of seventeen, she enrolled in a few classes at Université Laval, where she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, who encouraged her to write. She published her first novel "La Belle Bête" (translated as "Mad Shadows") in 1959, when she turned 20. She has since written more than