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Françoise Thérèse de Voyer de Dorée. Categories: Louis XIV. Mistresses of French royalty. Royal mistresses by person. Court of Louis XIV.
Catherine Bellier (1614–1689) baroness of Beauvais, between 1652–1654. Olympe Mancini (1638–1708) in 1654–1657 and 1660-1661. Anne-Madeleine de Conty d'Argencourt in 1658. Marie Mancini (1639–1715) in 1658–1659; not a mistress but a platonic love.
Françoise Le Prévost. Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours (6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the first mistress of Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667. The daughter of a military governor, La Vallière joined the royal court in 1661 as maid of honour to Henrietta of England ...
Jan 3, 2003 · Published on January 3, 2003 05:00AM EST. First-time author Lisa Hilton’s study of the stunning and witty Athenais de Montespan, the most infamous of Louis XIV’s mistresses, unfolds amid the ...
Feb 8, 2017 · Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, the famously beautiful and witty maîtresse-en-titre of the Sun King Louis XIV, was born in Lussac in 1640. She was the third child of the Duc and Duchesse de Mortemart, one of France’s most noble families. Athénaïs (as she chose to be called) was presented at court aged twenty and became ...
Jun 16, 2016 · Oil on canvas, 114 × 62 5/8 in. Gift of J. Paul Getty. J. Paul Getty Museum, 70.PA.1. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program. Louise was allowed to take leave for England with the permission of King Louis XIV of France, who saw Charles’s infatuation with the young woman as an opportunity to use her as a spy (of sorts).
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Abstract. Louis XIV of France’s 72-year reign (1643-1715), is most well-known for the luxuriousness of the court and Louis’s multiple mistresses.1 However, what is less well-known is how much influence the various women around Louis had on his court and character and therefore the way he ruled. To examine this an analysis of the roles of ...
