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Hortense Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Mademoiselle de Chalon, marquise de Flavacourt (1715–1799) was a French courtier, one of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. Unlike each of her four sisters, she never became the king's mistress, though she was often the subject of speculations.
Biographie. Hortense-Félicité de Mailly-Nesle est la fille de Louis III de Mailly-Nesle et d' Armande Félice de la Porte Mazarin, petite-fille d' Hortense Mancini, elle-même nièce de Mazarin. Elle est issue de la Maison de Mailly, une des plus anciennes familles de la noblesse française.
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The only one of the de Nesle sisters not to become one of Louis XV's mistresses was Hortense Félicité de Mailly, Marquise de Flavacourt. Louise Julie was the first sister to attract the king, but it was Marie Anne who was the most successful in manipulating him and becoming politically powerful.
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- Depiction in Fiction
Pauline Félicité was born the second daughter of Louis de Mailly, marquis de Nesle et de Mailly, Prince d'Orange (1689–1767), and Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin (1691–1729). Her parents had been married in 1709. Her mother was the daughter of Paul Jules de La Porte, duc Mazarin et de La Meilleraye (1666–1731), the son of the famous adventuress,...
In 1738, Pauline Félicité wrote to her elder sister, Louise Julie, the king's official mistress, asking to be invited to court. She received the invitation, and during her stay proceeded to seduce the king, who fell passionately in love with her. Pauline Félicité then became the second mistress of Louis XV, although her sister kept the official pos...
Pauline is one of the central characters in Sally Christie's The Sisters of Versailles(Simon&Schuster 2015), a novel about Louis XV and the notorious Mailly-Nesle sisters.
Nov 18, 2018 · LE PARISIEN WEEK-END. Invitées par leur aînée, Louise, maîtresse officielle de Louis XV, Hortense-Félicité et Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle rejoignent le château de Versailles à l’automne 1742.
Here is Hortense-Felicité de Mailly-Nesle, known as Mademoiselle de Chalon before her marriage and the Marquise de Flavacourt after. Reputed to be the most beautiful of her sisters, her portrait perhaps doesn't do her justice, at least to our modern eyes.
Hortense-Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (* 11. Februar 1715 in Paris, Pfarre Saint-Sulpice; † 28. Dezember 1799 [2] ), genannt Mademoiselle de Châlon und durch ihre Ehe Marquise de Flavacourt, war eine französische Aristokratin aus dem Haus Mailly, einer der ältesten französischen Adelsfamilien.
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