Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon
Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau - Craon, Marquise de Boufflers ( born December 8 in 1711 in Luneville, † 1787 in Paris) was the official mistress of Stanislaus Leszczynski I. Duke of Lorraine and Bar at the Court of Luneville
Madame de Boufflers was the daughter of Marc de Beauvau - Craon (1679-1754) and Anne Marguerite de Lignéville (1686-1772), a mistress of the Duke Leopold of Lorraine, born in 1711. She married François de Boufflers 1714-1752 Marquis d' Amestranges.
At 34 years, she was introduced to the court of Luneville and in the same year official favorite of the 63 -year-old Duke Stanislas. Madame de Boufflers was considered beautiful, educated and witty. " Ces fleurs dont je vous fais présent, sont comme vous fraîches et belles, Comme moi, simple, naturelles, corn le temps les fane aisément. " Voltaire. Madame de Boufflers wrote verses and reussierte as a pastel painter.
The role of the favorite did not stop them entering into numerous affairs, which earned her the nickname of Madame de Volupté. Known are its relations with the poet Jean -François de Saint- Lambert, Monsieur d' Adhemar, the director of Lorraine Antoine- Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière, the lawyer and poet François- Antoine Devaux, the confessor of the Duke Abbé Porquet and several other.
Saint -Lambert is intended to excite Madame de Boufflers jealousy, have Émilie du Châtelet seduced during their stay in Luneville 1748. Madame de Boufflers and Madame du Châtelet association notwithstanding a lifelong close friendship.
MadeMe de Boufflers was the sister of Marshal de Levis Mirepoix. His marriage to François de Boufflers came the Chevalier Stanislas de Boufflers, governor of Senegal and poet.
The importance of Madame Bouffler is because their person the reactive melancholy Stanislaus Leszczynski I. cheered after his arrival in Lorraine and moved him over 20 years to entertain the glittering court of Luneville. Madame Bouffler attracted writers, scientists and artists of European significance in the Lorraine province, which fell after the death of Stanislaus Leszczynski I. of France.