Louise de La Fayette

Louise de La Fayette, actually Marie Louise Angélique Motier, comtesse de La Fayette, ( born November 8, 1618 Amathay - Vésigneux; † January 11, 1665 in Chaillot in Paris) was a close confidante of the French king Louis XIII. and his platonic friend and advisor.

Life

Louise was a daughter of Jean Motier, comte de La Fayette and his wife Marguerite de Bourbon Busset. Through her grandmother, Louise de Bourbon- Busset, she came to the French court in Paris and was maid of honor of Queen Anne of Austria. Cardinal Richelieu disapproved of the influence that Marie de Haute Fort in time to Louis XIII. had acquired. In 1635 he succeeded Marie displace from their position and to replace it with the lady Louise de La Fayette. Louise should spy on the king on behalf of the Cardinal, but what they strictly refused. 1637, the King turned back to his former girlfriend Marie to, and Louise went to the Val -de- Grâce convent. There she was often of Louis XIII. visited and held rain correspondence with the Queen. At the time of her death, Louise de la Fayette was abbess of a convent, which she had founded near Chaillot.

Trivia

By Louise de la Fayette, the French royal couple is said to have reconciled. At the peak of their disfavor, Buckingham Scandal ( 1625) and Chalais Affair ( 1626 ), Anna brought by Austria on September 5, 1638 to a son, the future King Louis XIV.

In 1843/44 published novel The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires ) by Alexandre Dumas was Louise de la Fayette immortalized in the figure of D' Artagnan's girlfriend " Constance Bonacieux ."