Madame de Montespan
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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan, commonly known as Madame de Montespan, was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV. During
Portrait of Françoise-Athénaïs, c. 1660, when Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente
Henrietta Anne of England, to whom Madame de Montespan was a lady-in-waiting
Mme de Montespan, by Pierre Mignard, c.1670
Madame de Montespan and four of her children: Mademoiselle de Nantes; Count of Vexin; Mademoiselle de Tours; Duke of Maine
Françoise d'Aubigné, known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon, was a French noblewoman and the second wife of King Louis XIV from 1683 until his death in 1715. Although sh
Madame de Montespan
…children by the king, six of them later legitimised but only four survived infancy. She mostly entrusted her children to Madame Scarron, who as the Marquise de Maintenon was later to replace her in the king's affections. Madame de Montespan's alleged involvement in the Affair of the Poisons, which began in 1677, severely…
Portrait by Pierre Mignard, 1694
Mme de Scarron
Madame de Maintenon with her niece, Françoise Amable d'Aubigné.
Madame de Maintenon with the natural children of Louis XIV by Antoine Coypel, 1684