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    Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam...
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    Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she married her first cousin...
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    de Maintenon in the French film The Death of Louis XIV. de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise-Athénaïs (1899). The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan....
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    his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman...
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    she was the older sister of Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Madame de Montespan. Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart was born in 1633. She...
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    Plato's Symposium in conjunction with Racine; Françoise-Athénaïs (1640–1705), known as Madame de Montespan, was Louis XIV's favourite from 1667 to 1680...
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    Gabriel de Rochechouart, 1st Duke of Mortemart (1600 – 26 December 1675) was a French nobleman and father of the Marquise de Montespan. He was a friend...
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  • Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin (17 November 1663 – 1675) was the eldest legitimate child of Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart and her husband...
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    de Montmorency, and was wounded and made captive at the battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557. Françoise-Athenaïs de Rochechouart, also known as Madame de Montespan...
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    de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs,...
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    Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She died in early childhood. Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 18...
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  • Murat. In February 1663 he married Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart. However, for Mademoiselle de Mortemart, a famed beauty who loved...
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    his mistress Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, better known as Madame de Montespan. Louise-Françoise was known as Mademoiselle du Maine...
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    Gondrin, marquis de Montespan (1640–1701) and of his wife, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan. Thus, while her first...
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    Louise-Françoise de Bourbon. In 1707, Madame de Montespan died, and the duc du Maine inherited a large portion of her fortune, including the Château de Clagny...
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  • great-grandson of Madame de Montespan. He was born at Versailles in 1707, the elder of the two children of Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis de Gondrin, and...
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    XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She was known as Mademoiselle de Clermont. The fourth daughter and the fifth child of...
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    grandson of Louis XIV of France and of his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs de Montespan. He was a member of the legitimised House of Bourbon-Maine...
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    January 1683) was a son of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan. He was the Abbot of Saint-Denis and of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Louis...
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  • the house of Pardaillan de Gondrin, an old noble family of Gascon origin. His paternal great-grandmother was Madame de Montespan. His paternal grandmothers...
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    Louis XV of France) and his wife, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, the daughter of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. His mother, the Dowager Princess...
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    married Louis Alexandre de Bourbon in May 1768. Louis Alexandre was a grandson of Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan...
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  • chambermaid (femme de chambre) of Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise of Montespan (1640 –1707). Madame de Montespan had been the maîtresse-en-titre (official...
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    Bourbon, legitimated daughter of Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. During his father's lifetime, the infant Louis Joseph...
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    Thérèse de la Châtre, Duchesse la Marêchale de Humiéres Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan Marguerite-Louise-Suzanne de Béthune...
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    Louise Françoise de la Baume le Blanc de la Vallière (1644–1710), duchesse de la Vallière and duchesse de Vaujours Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart...
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    Louise de La Vallière (1644–1710), duchess of Vaujours 1667–1681: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1640–1707), marquise of Montespan 1678–1681:...
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    Countess of Soissons 1679–1683: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan 1725–1741: Marie Anne de Bourbon 1741–1768: Abolished 1775–1792:...
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    Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Tours - the third daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan...
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    apartments of Françoise-Athénaïs de Montespan, the mother of the duc du Maine, the comte de Toulouse, the duchesse d'Orléans and the princesse de Condé. On...
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