Marie Louise Mignot Marie Louise Mignot Marie Louise Mignot (1712–1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed father in 1737, Voltaire provided her with a dowry and she married army supply officer Nicolas-Charles Denis, giving rise to her married name of Madame Denis. After her husband's premature death in 1744, she was taken in by Voltaire and became his housekeeper, hostess and companion. She also adopted his protégée Reine Philiberte de Varicourt when the latter's marriage to the marquis de Villette foundered
Fran Roš and "Desetnica Alenčica" (Magda the Tenth-Born, 1951). For adults, he wrote the comedy "Mokrodolci" (The People of Mokri Dol), staged in 1946. He also collaborated with the composer Risto Savin, for whom he wrote librettos for the operas "Gosposvetski sen" (Maria Saal Dream, 1921) and "Matija Gubec" (1923). In 1960 Roš received the Šlander Award (a municipal prize), and two years before his death he received the Žagar Award as recognition of his work in education. Fran Roš Fran Roš (, 14 January 1898 – 22 August 1976) was a Slovene writer, poet, and playwright. Fran Roš was born in