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
Marie Manning (writer) Rome's 1937 revue "Pins and Needles" (later made famous by Barbra Streisand): "Oh Beatrice Fairfax, give me the bare facts,"<br> "How do you make them fall?"<br> "If you don't save me, the things the Lord gave me"<br> "Never will be any use to me at all." There is a poem by Kenneth Fearing entitled "Dear Beatrice Fairfax" in which he metaphorically lambasts social status as product guarantees. Marie Manning (writer) Marie Manning (January 22, 1872 —November 28, 1945) was a newspaper columnist and novelist in the early 20th century. She wrote the first newspaper advice column, "Dear Beatrice Fairfax", in