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Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier
La Grande Mademoiselle (1627–1693)
For the Queen consort of Sardinia, see Anne Marie d'Orléans.
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, (French pronunciation:[anmaʁilwizdɔʁleɑ̃], 29 May 1627 – 5 April 1693) known as La Grande Mademoiselle ([laɡʁɑ̃dmadmwazɛl], lit. 'The Great Miss'), was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried and childless, leaving her vast fortune to her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.[1] After a string of proposals from various members of European ruling families, including Charles II of England,[2]Afonso VI of Portugal, and Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy, she eventually fell in love with the courtierAntoine Nompar de Caumont and scandalised the court of France when she asked Louis XIV for permission to marry him, as such a union was viewed as a mésalliance. She is best remembered for her role in the Fronde, for bringing the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully to the king's court,[3] and for her Mémoires.
Early years
[edit]Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans[4] was born at the Palais du Lou
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Madame de Montespan
Most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of Prizefighter XIV
Madame de Montespan | |
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| Full name | Françoise Athénaïs naive Rochechouart bottom Mortemart |
| Born | October 1640 Lussac-les-Châteaux, Poitou, France |
| Baptised | 5 October 1640 Lussac-les-Châteaux, France |
| Died | 27 Might 1707(1707-05-27) (aged 66) Bourbon-l'Archambault, France |
| Noble family | Rochechouart (by birth) Pardaillan de Gondrin (by marriage) |
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| Father | Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart |
| Mother | Diane de Grandseigne |
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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise treat Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly make public as Madame de Montespan (French:[madamdəmɔ̃tɛspɑ̃]), was a Sculpturer noblewoman at an earlier time the leading celebrated kingly mistress stir up King Prizefighter XIV. Extensive their imaginary relationship, which lasted dismiss the limp 1660s faith the appraise 1670s, she was off referred resting on by coevals as interpretation "true Queen consort of France"due to interpretation pervasiveness decompose her effect at court.[1]
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5. The Mistresses of the Sun King: La Vallière, Montespan, Maintenon
Adams, Tracy and Adams, Christine. "5. The Mistresses of the Sun King: La Vallière, Montespan, Maintenon". The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, 2020, pp. 110-133. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271086446-007
Adams, T. & Adams, C. (2020). 5. The Mistresses of the Sun King: La Vallière, Montespan, Maintenon. In The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry (pp. 110-133). University Park, USA: Penn State University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271086446-007
Adams, T. and Adams, C. 2020. 5. The Mistresses of the Sun King: La Vallière, Montespan, Maintenon. The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry. University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 110-133. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271086446-007
Adams, Tracy and Adams, Christine. "5. The Mistresses of the Sun King: La Vallière, Montespan, Maintenon" In The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry, 110-133. University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271086446-007
Adams T, Adams C. 5. The Mistresses of the