The Mistresses’ Mother
In case you were wondering how the mother of the Mailly sisters reacted to her daughters becoming serial mistresses of
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Madame de Pompadour’s Bed
Madame de Pompadour was the first official King’s mistress to come from the bourgeois business class, which did not go
Madame du Barry’s Bed
If the nobility had a problem with Mme de Pompadour’s background, it paled into insignificance when the next (and last)
Louis XV’s Marriage
It had been agreed that Louis XV would marry his Spanish cousin Mariana Victoria. She arrived in Paris at the
Louis XV’s First Mistresses
Eight years after marrying Marie-Leszczynska, Louis XV was bored. At 23 he was already the father of seven children. Marie
Mademoiselle de Charolais
Louis XIV organised the marriage of Louise-Françoise, his eldest daughter by Mme de Montespan to the future Prince de Condé.