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At the time Louis XIV had appeared to be losing interest in his longtime established mistress Marquise de Montespan and turning to the governess of their children, Madame de Maintenon. Infatuated by the beauty of the young girl, the king suddenly abandoned both women, [ 3 ] and the stand-off between the two was suddenly eclipsed by a new ...
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
Maria Theresa of Spain (Spanish: María Teresa de Austria; French: Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal as the daughter of King Philip IV and Elisabeth of France , and was also an Archduchess ...
Louis XIV of France. Louis XIV (1638–1715), the Bourbon monarch of the Kingdom of France, was the son of King Louis XIII of France and Queen Anne. The descendants of Louis XIV are numerous. Although only one of his children by his wife Maria Theresa of Spain survived past infancy, Louis had many illegitimate children by his mistresses. [1]
A letter sent on 13 June 1685, by the Secretary of the King's Household to M. De Bezons, general agent of the clergy, and the pension of 300 pounds granted by King Louis XIV to the nun Louise Marie-Thérèse on 15 October 1695, "to be paid to her all her life in this convent or everywhere she could be, by the guards of the Royal treasure ...
A son, Louis-Auguste, was born in 1670. When the third child, Louis-César, was born in 1672, a house was purchased for Scarron and the children on the Rue Vaugirard. [13] In 1673, the couple's three living illegitimate children were legitimised by Louis XIV and given the royal surname of de Bourbon.
Anne d'Autriche, Mère de Louis XIV (hardcover) (in French). Paris: Hachette. ISBN 978-2-0100-4474-8. Fraser, Antonia (2007). Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-1-4000-3374-4. Freer, Martha Walker (1864). The Married Life of Anne of Austria, Queen of France. London: Tinsley Brothers.
d'Aubigné Coat-of-Arms. Françoise d'Aubigné was born on 27 November 1635, in Niort, France.A plaque suggests her birthplace was at the Hotel du Chaumont, [1] but some sources indicate she was born in [2] or just outside the local prison, where her Huguenot father Constant d'Aubigné was incarcerated for conspiring against King Louis XIII's powerful chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu. [3]