Château de Madame du Barry
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The Château de Madame du Barry is a château constructed at the end of the 17th century in Louveciennes, in the Yvelines department of France. It was expanded and redecorated in the middle of the 18th
Pavillon de Musique – elevation of entry side (garden façade)
Pavillon des Eaux, later called Château de Madame du Barry – northern façade facing the chemin de la Machine
Louis XIV
Louise-Françoise de Bourbon
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, great-grandson of Louis XIV by the king's legitimised son, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon. He was known as the Prince of Lam
Château de Madame du Barry
…de Bourbon Princess of Conti, who introduced Madame de Pompadour to court. At some point, the building reverted to the crown. It was then used by the Prince de Lamballe. Lamballe was heir to the vast wealth of the House of Bourbon-Penthièvre; he was brother-in-law to Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (later Philippe…
Portrait of Marie Thérése, by Joseph Duplessis (c. 1775)