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)
Louis XIV
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Louis XIV was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. He is a symbol of the Age of Absolutism in Europe for styling himself as "The Sun King" and "Louis the Great", which portrayed hi
Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé
…Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon, Légitimée de France (French pronunciation: ; 1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La…
Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701
Louis XIV as a young child, by an unknown painter
Baptismal certificate, 1638
Louis XIV, then Dauphin of France, in 1642, one year before his accession to the throne, by Philippe de Champaigne