Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She
Portrait by François de Troy, c. 1688-1692
Her older half-sister Marie Anne de Bourbon
Younger sister Marie Françoise de Bourbon (left) and Louise Françoise (right) along with an enslaved Black attendant (centre)
The marriage of Mademoiselle de Nantes to the Duke of Bourbon (by an anonymous artist, 1685)
Françoise Marie de Bourbon
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Françoise Marie de Bourbon was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. At the age of 14, she married her first cousin Philippe d
Pierre Gobert, "Portrait of the Duchess of Orléans Françoise Marie de Bourbon", 1700
Portrait of Françoise Marie (by François de Troy, ca. 1692)
Mademoiselle de Blois as Galatea Triumphant (by Pierre Gobert, 1692)
Françoise Marie with her son (by Pierre Gobert)