Marie Angélique de Scorailles

Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille, duchesse de Font Anges (* 1661 Castle Cropières, community Raulhac, Cantal, † June 28, 1681 in Port Royal des Champs ), was a mistress of the French King Louis XIV

Life

Her father Jean- de Rigal Scoraille was a lieutenant of the king in the Auvergne; her mother was Aimée Eléonore de Plas.

Fascinated by its extraordinary beauty, suggested a cousin of his father, the young wife to go to Paris to introduce them at the court of Versailles. Her parents agreed, they still raise a further four daughters and three sons. A short time later, she was introduced as a maid of honor to the Duchess of Orleans, the sister of Louis XIV, at the court. Angélique de Scoraille attracted the attention of the king himself, was soon after, in 1678, his mistress and therefore supplanted Madame de Montespan.

This compound was kept secret until the spring of 1679, when it was officially recognized as the maitresse en titre royale. During this time she revealed her arrogant and wasteful character ( she is said to have literally thrown the money down the drain ). Towards the end of 1679, she was prematurely delivered of a stillborn son and recovered poorly from their suffering. Louis XIV moved away more and more of her because of her somewhat foolish character. Her appointment to the Duchess of Fontanges 1680 already marked the end of their favor, which was so outstanding as short. Angélique de Fontanges retired to the Abbey of Port -Royal. Exit and still not recovered from her illness, she died in June 1681, barely 20 years old.

Her sudden death fueled the rumor of poisoning under the influence of the famous poisoning affair of Catherine Monvoisin. Madame de Montespan was suspected of complicity in her death, but today's physicians, who have taken the autopsy report more closely, confirm that Mademoiselle de Fontanges died of natural causes at a pleurisy.

The Duchess of Fontanges is the namesake of a headgear, the Fontange.

Family

The house Scorraille has been known for 930. Pepin the Short, in his last campaign against Waiffre, the Duke of Aquitaine, occupied the CASTRUM SCORALIUM and took it in the fall of 767. The de Scoraille family is very old, their ancestry is detectable from 1168 to. It is related through Henry IV of France, the first French king from the house of Bourbon, with the royal family.