Louise de La Vallière
Louise Françoise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours, Louise de La Vallière called (* August 6, 1644 in Tours, † June 7, 1710 ) was a mistress of Louis XIV
Life
Louise was the daughter of an officer, Laurent de la Baume le Blanc, who derived the name La Vallière from a small estate near Amboise. Her father died 1651st His widow, who soon remarried, moved to the court of Gaston d' Orléans, Blois. Louise was raised together with the younger princesses, the stepsisters of the "Grande Mademoiselle ," Anne Marie Louise d' Orléans. After Gaston's death, his widow moved with her daughters in the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, Louise, now a girl of sixteen, she accompanied.
Through the influence of a distant relative, Madame de Choisy, she was married maid of honor of Henrietta of England, which was about her age and just Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans, the brother of the king. Henrietta changed during the year 1661 to the court at Fontainebleau and was soon in the most friendly relationship with her brother; in fact so friendly that it was a scandal that it was decided to avoid. Ludwig should direct his attention to another person. The person selected for this honor was Henrietta Lady Louise. She had become the king's mistress in Fontainebleau after only two months. The affair, which went down Louise clueless, immediately developed a real passion on both sides. It was Louise's first relationship, and she was an innocent, religious thinking girl that looked neither coquetry nor self-interest on the relationship that was covered up conscientiously. Nicolas Fouquet's curiosity in this matter was one of the reasons why he fell out of favor.
In February 1662 there was a riot, because Louise refused to tell her lover about the relationship between Madame ( Henrietta ) and the Comte de Guiche. She fled in an unknown convent at Chaillot, where Ludwig followed her quickly. Your enemies, of which the most important Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons ( Mazarin's niece ) was, trying to reach their demise by telling the Queen Maria Theresa of the liaison. She was immediately dismissed from the services Henrietteas and had to move to a small building of the Palais Royal, where she gave birth to her son Charles in December 1663, which was placed in the care of two faithful servant of Colbert.
Concealment was practically abandoned after her return to the court, and within a week after the death of Anne of Austria in January 1666 appeared La Vallière in the fair side by side with Maria Theresa. But her favor faded already. She had a second child in January 1665, but the two children were already dead before the autumn of 1666 A was born in Vincennes in October 1666 daughter who was named Marie Anne and was referred to as Mademoiselle de Blois, was by Ludwig public on 12 January 1674 recognized her as his daughter. The mother he made in May 1667 for the Duchess and gave her the good Vaujours. In October of that year she gave birth to a son, but at this time no doubt Athénaïs de Montespan had already acquired their place in Ludwig's heart. She was forced to remain as the official mistress of the king in the court, and even Madame de Montespan's apartment to share in the Tuileries Palace with her. She made an escape attempt in 1671 in the Convention Ste. -Marie de Chaillot, but was forced to return. 1674, April 19, she was finally allowed to enter in the Carmelites of the Faubourg Saint -Jacques in the Rue d' Enfer. A year later she made her profession. The sermon on this occasion held Bishop Bossuet.
Her daughter married in 1680 Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. Her youngest child, the Comte de Vermandois, died during his first campaign in 1683 in Courtrai.
Progeny
- Charles (1663-1665)
- Philippe (1665-1666)
- Marie Anne (1666-1739), ∞ since 1680 Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
- Louis de Bourbon (1667-1683) comte de Vermandois, in 1669 legitimized