La valliere
[la va-lyer] /la vaˈlyɛr/
noun
1.
Duchesse de [dy-shes duh] /dyˈʃɛs də/ (Show IPA), (Francoise Louise de la Baume Le Blanc) 1644–1710, French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XIV of France: later a religious.
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