• Thumbnail for Madame du Barry
    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...
    31 KB (3,849 words) - 09:37, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maîtresse-en-titre
    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...
    7 KB (678 words) - 14:55, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zoé Talon du Cayla
    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...
    5 KB (720 words) - 21:32, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of French royal mistresses
    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...
    17 KB (1,823 words) - 01:42, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles
    (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...
    12 KB (1,270 words) - 20:43, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
    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...
    30 KB (3,718 words) - 07:27, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan
    Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam də mɔ̃tɛspɑ̃]), was a French noblewoman and...
    31 KB (3,287 words) - 19:39, 6 September 2024
  • (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress). She was the daughter of Jacques du Buisson, seigneur de Longpré, and Irène de Séran...
    2 KB (309 words) - 15:49, 25 June 2024
  • 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,...
    2 KB (198 words) - 00:09, 3 June 2024
  • 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...
    6 KB (457 words) - 19:05, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon
    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...
    5 KB (412 words) - 00:31, 30 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Louis Charles, Count of Eu
    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...
    6 KB (369 words) - 13:58, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon
    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...
    8 KB (666 words) - 05:24, 13 July 2024
  • 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...
    5 KB (294 words) - 21:23, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marie Victoire de Noailles
    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...
    7 KB (870 words) - 01:08, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henriette of France
    1745 onward was the influential maîtresse-en-titre. With her brother, the Dauphin Louis, and her sister, Madame Adélaïde, she called the powerful mistress...
    14 KB (1,556 words) - 08:43, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adélaïde of France
    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...
    41 KB (5,201 words) - 13:48, 4 July 2024
  • the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress). She was the daughter of the marquis Louis de Mailly...
    2 KB (341 words) - 11:01, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grand Trianon
    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...
    13 KB (1,526 words) - 10:39, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise de La Vallière
    arts, literature, and philosophy. In 1666, she was replaced as mistress by Madame de Montespan, but created a suo jure duchess and invested with lands. After...
    86 KB (10,458 words) - 21:06, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isabelle de Ludres
    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)...
    9 KB (910 words) - 23:59, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741)
    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...
    10 KB (753 words) - 19:32, 2 August 2024
  • 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...
    34 KB (4,024 words) - 12:41, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marie Geneviève Radix de Sainte-Foy
    the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress). Marie was the daughter of Claude Mathieu Radix, Seigneur...
    3 KB (399 words) - 05:41, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé
    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...
    32 KB (2,951 words) - 14:01, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Françoise Marie de Bourbon
    illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of...
    26 KB (3,004 words) - 05:03, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle
    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...
    7 KB (814 words) - 18:17, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Anne de Bourbon
    Louise Anne de Bourbon (category Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques)
    surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. Born at the Palace of Versailles, Louise Anne was the...
    9 KB (732 words) - 01:29, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louveciennes
    450 km (280 mi) north of Bucharest – since 2000 Madame du Barry (1743–1793), the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun...
    9 KB (795 words) - 11:09, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nadine de Rothschild
    impures by Pierre Chevalier - Une entraîneuse 1954 : Madame du Barry by Christian-Jaque - Loque, une fille du roi 1955 : Blackmail by Guy Lefranc - Janine, la...
    11 KB (1,299 words) - 09:51, 4 September 2024