Marie-Louise O'Murphy

Marie -Louise O'Murphy (* October 21, 1737 in Rouen, † December 11, 1814 in Paris) was a courtesan and mistress of the French King Louis XV.

Life

She was the fifth daughter of an Irish ex- soldier who had settled as a shoemaker in Rouen. After his death, his mother moved with the children over to Paris, where they operated themselves as Altkleiderhändlerin, while her daughters worked as actresses or models.

1751/52, as Marie -Louise was just 14, she got naked model for François Boucher, who painted two oil paintings of her. The Wallraf -Richartz- Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne records to his image (resting girl Marie -Louise O'Murphy ): ". The first pin-up girl" Her beauty struck a courtier, who Louis XV. presented. It was one of the mistresses of the king, and bore him an illegitimate daughter soon, Agathe Louise de Saint- Antoine ( 1754-1774 ). General de Beaufranchet should also come from the relationship, but this was never proven beyond doubt. After she had been two years mistress, she tried 1754 to oust the powerful favorite courtesan of the king, Madame de Pompadour. You lost this power struggle, was married to a nobleman and from the farm. Although it was subsequently more courtly lovers in the environment, but never got back to their previous status.

Marie -Louise O'Murphy married in 1755 Jacques de Beaufranchet, with whom she had a son, Louis Charles Antoine de Beaufranchet. 1759 she married Francois Nicolas Le Normant and 1798 finally the 30 year younger Louis -Philippe Dumont, the Members of the Calvados region in the National Convention, of which it was but divorced in the same year. During the French Revolution, it was briefly detained on account of their royal connection.

• Mistress
• Frenchman
• Louis XV.
• Born in 1737
• Died in 1814
• Woman