Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault Michael given to a woman. She was the mistress of the Duc of Orleans and may have been secretly married to the Duc of Nevers. This brought her into higher social spheres and earned her a pension on the King’s tab. She would spend 1723 - 1793 living in an apartment in the Louvre, at the Pavilion de L’Infante. Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (26 August 1695 in Strasbourg – 1793 in Paris) (known as l'aînée) was a French singer and composer. Her father was the actor Jean Quinault (1656–1728), and her brother was Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, a singer, composer, and actor.
The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Delacorte Press in 1970. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems. "The Collected Essays", in addition to containing seventeen pieces, includes all thirty-two essays published in "The Days Before" in 1952. Like "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter" and "The Never-Ending Wrong", it consists of work Porter had written prior to her long novel "Ship