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unusual facts about Madame de Montespan



Antoine Lepautre

Madame de Montespan commissioned him to make plans for her Château de Clagny, close to Versailles; the unfinished project was completed after Lepautre's death by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine

Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 31 March 1670 - Sceaux, 14 May 1736) was a legitimised son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan.

Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon

Her father was the grandson of le Grand Condé and her mother, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon was the eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV of France and his Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan.

Sack-back gown

However people would comment: "Madame de Montespan has put on her robe battante, therefore she must be pregnant.".


see also

Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart

Through Madame de Montespan, he is an ancestor of Philippe Égalité, Louis-Philippe I, and Prince Henri, Count of Paris, the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne.

Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine

Louise Françoise de Bourbon (4 December 1707 – 19 August 1743) was a grand daughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, better known as Madame de Montespan.

Mademoiselle de Blois

Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677–1749) illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and Madame de Montespan