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    Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine...
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    The maîtresse-en-titre (French: [mɛtʁɛs ɑ̃ titʁ]) was the official royal mistress of the King of France. The title was vaguely defined and used in the...
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    comtesse du Cayla (5 August 1785 – 19 March 1852), was an intimate friend and confidante of Louis XVIII of France, and was his maîtresse-en-titre. She was...
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    (10 August 1744 – 15 June 1754) was the daughter of Madame de Pompadour, the maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She died in childhood. Alexandrine-Jeanne...
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  • Mailly 1742–1744: Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle 1745–1764: Madame de Pompadour 1769–1774: Madame du Barry After 1755, unofficial lovers of the king who did...
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  • (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress). She was the daughter of Jacques du Buisson, seigneur de Longpré, and Irène de Séran...
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  • on clients for the last time in 1783. Madame du Barry, King Louis XV's last official mistress (Maîtresse-en-titre), worked here for a while. The Taitbout...
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    supplanted Montespan as the king's maîtresse-en-titre. After the death of Queen Maria Theresa in 1683, Madame de Maintenon married Louis in a private ceremony...
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    Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam də mɔ̃tɛspɑ̃]), was a French noblewoman and...
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    illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his most famous Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She died in early childhood. Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon...
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    youngest legitimized son of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. Marie Victoire was born at Versailles on 6 May 1688, as...
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  • the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress). She was the daughter of the marquis Louis de Mailly...
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  • the royal dynasty through the liaison of Louis XIV with a maîtresse-en-titre. He was known as the Duc de Rambouillet. He was the first born son of Louis...
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    1745 onward was the influential maîtresse-en-titre. With her brother, the Dauphin Louis, and her sister, Madame Adélaïde, she called the powerful mistress...
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  • d'Esparbès de Lussan du Gout, comte d'Esparbès. She was one of the secret lovers of the king in 1763. Upon the death of Madame de Pompadour in 1764,...
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    Louis XV introduced his last official maîtresse-en-titre, Madame du Barry, to court in 1769, whom Madame Adélaïde came to despise. In the last years of their...
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  • Poujade, also Madame Delafond, also Madame la Comtesse E. de Sornay (1814 - 1881) was a Mauritian poet and writer, who founded the Société du Lierre and...
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    Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon (category Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques)
    Condé and her mother, Madame la Duchesse, the eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. Élisabeth...
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    interested in the arts, literature, and philosophy. In 1666, she was replaced by Madame de Montespan but also created a suo jure duchess and invested with lands...
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    July 1775) was a grandson of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Madame de Montespan. He was the last member of the legitimised house of Maine...
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    the request of Louis XIV as a retreat for himself and his maîtresse-en-titre of the time, the Marquise de Montespan, and as a place where he and invited...
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    Around Easter 1675, during a conflict with her maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress) Madame de Montespan (1640–1707), the king himself, Louis XIV (1638–1715)...
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    the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress). Marie was the daughter of Claude Mathieu Radix, Seigneur...
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    Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé (category Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques)
    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...
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    Louis XV and became his mistress, and was recognized as his maîtresse en titre in 1738. Louise Julie did not use her new position at court to enrich herself...
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    Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741) (category Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques)
    eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She was known as Mademoiselle de Clermont. The fourth...
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    illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of...
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    Louis XV, although her sister kept the official position of maîtresse en titre. The king lavished her with gifts, the greatest being the castle of Choisy-le-Roi...
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  • Imagine as Light". Unifrance. "Drone". StudioCanal. "Maya, Donne-moi un Titre". Unifrance. "The Bearded Mermaid". The Open Reel. "When Fall Is Coming"...
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    déclarer d'utilité publique, à titre d'intérêt général, le chemin de fer à voie d'un mètre de Villefranche-de-Conflent à Bourg-Madame et d'approuver la convention...
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