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Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon (1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) was the eldest surviving legitimised [1] daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, [2] the woman her mother had replaced as the king's mistress.
Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon (1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) was the eldest 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 after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman her mother had replaced as the king's mistress.
Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) was an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous mistress Madame de Montespan. Her marriage to a prince of the blood in 1685 caused great scandal and she had an open rivalry with her older sister Françoise Marie, Duchess of Orléans.
Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (22 November 1693–27 May 1775) was a daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, légitimée de France, a legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was the wife of Louis Armand II de Bourbon, Prince of Conti.
Louise-Françoise was the fourth child born to Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. Her birth, on 1 June in 1673, took place in slightly unusual surroundings. Madame de Montespan accompanied the King, along with the rest of the court, on a military tour through Flanders. Mademoiselle de Nantes.
Here, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Princess of Condé (1673–1743) is elegantly dressed wearing the elaborate wired lace fontange (a tall headdress) and holding a fan. These prints help historians of fashion and dress to date historic trends.
Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV by his his mistress Madame de Montespan. She was styled as ' Mademoiselle de Nantes prior to being forced to marry Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon in 1685.
