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2 unusual facts about Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien


Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien

Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien (28 June 1638 – 11 November 1728) was a French noblewoman, the elder sister of Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Queen of Poland.

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien

She came to Poland at the age of five years as a lady in waiting to Marie Louise Gonzaga, the French-born Queen of Poland from 1645 to 1672, wife and consort to two Polish kings — Władysław IV Vasa and later his brother (who succeeded him) John II Casimir Vasa.


Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien

Louise Marie married François Gaston de Béthune, marquis de Chabris, and their children included Louis Marie Victor, comte de Béthune, and Jeanne de Béthune, wife of Count Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski.

Zolochiv Castle

The Chinese Palace, a diminutive mauve-colored rotunda flanked by one-storey wings, was added later in the century as Jan III's gift to his French-born wife, Marysieńka.


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