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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, Duchess of Orléans.
Oct 15, 2006 · Louis made Athénaïs his primary mistress for most of a decade, providing her with fabulous apartments at Versailles on the same floor as the queen and a chateau of her own at Clagny, where she...
The story line is about rise and fall of three important mistress in european history. - Part 1 tells about the mistress relationship of the renaissance pope Alexander IV. - Part 2 unvails the moste unusual stories of the Ottoman harem in Istanbul.
Despite the devotion of his wife Maria Theresa of Spain, Louis took a series of mistresses, a number of them "official", with whom he had numerous illegitimate children. Yet, for the last three decades of Louis' life, after Maria Theresa's death, he settled down more loyally with the Marquise de Maintenon.
Jan 3, 2003 · 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 dangerous liaisons of the Sun King’s court.
Dec 2, 2009 · (A number of illegitimate offspring resulted from Louis XIV’s affairs with a string of official and unofficial mistresses.) Sun King. After Mazarin’s death in 1661, Louis XIV broke with...
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Oct 24, 2006 · The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis’s accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.
