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    Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam də mɔ̃tɛspɑ̃]), was...
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    Montespan (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tɛspɑ̃]) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department of southwestern France. The remains of a 13th-century castle...
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    occasion, Montespan herself acted as the human altar during the mass. La Voisin also provided Montespan with an aphrodisiac, with which Montespan drugged...
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    The Château de Montespan is the remains of a 13th-century castle in the commune of Montespan in the Haute-Garonne département of France. The property...
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    fortunes improve through her friendship with Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Montespan, who tasked her with the upbringing of the king's extramarital children...
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    the companion of the official royal mistress and favourite Madame de Montespan. She was known for her involvement in the famous Affair of the Poisons...
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    of Versailles; it was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Madame de Montespan between 1674 and 1680. Although among the most important of the private...
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  • marquis de Montespan (1640 – 1 December 1691) was a French nobleman, most notable as the husband of Louis XIV's mistress Madame de Montespan. He was the...
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    son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of France. Born at the Château...
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    supplanted as the king's favourite due to the machinations of Madame de Montespan. La Vallière's relationship with the king ended a year later. Two of her...
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    the older sister of Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Madame de Montespan. Gabrielle was the eldest child of Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart...
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    a series of Black Mass rituals with Catherine Monvoisin for Madame de Montespan. Guibourg claimed to be the illegitimate son of Henri de Montmorency....
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  • des Poisons. In her testimony she named the king's mistress, Madame de Montespan as another participant in the scandal. She first came to police attention...
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  • Montespan. She died in her teens and never married. Marie Christine was born in Paris to Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis de Montespan and...
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    – The illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan, she was married in May 1685, to Louis III, Prince of Condé, then known...
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    January 1683) was a son of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan. He was the Abbot of Saint-Denis and of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Louis...
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    Phoebus d'Albret, Count of Miossens, and a cousin by marriage to Madame de Montespan. She was originally a Protestant Huguenot, but converted to Catholicism...
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  • Black Mass rituals with alleged witch Catherine Monvoisin for Madame de Montespan. During his period of scholarship, A. E. Waite provided a comprehensive...
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    Madame de Montespan (1640–1707), the king himself, Louis XIV (1638–1715) took an interest in her. They started a discreet affair, but Montespan became jealous...
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    de Maintenon to induce the king to abandon his liaison with Madame de Montespan. More than once at Easter he is said to have had a convenient illness...
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    to be losing interest in his longtime established mistress Marquise de Montespan and turning to the governess of their children, Madame de Maintenon. Infatuated...
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    mistress Françoise-Athénaise, Madame de Montespan - died there at the age of six. On 26 May 1707, Madame de Montespan herself also died at the chateau. The...
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    Vaujours Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan (1640–1707) Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), married...
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    son of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. Marie Victoire was born at Versailles on 6 May 1688, as the younger daughter...
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    Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1665), Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan (with whom he had seven children; 1667–1680), Anne de Rohan-Chabot (1669–1675)...
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    Perrault's fairy tale, Puss in Boots. King Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Montespan was one of the residents in the place. Today, Oiron is only a short drive...
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    prolonged infidelity with Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. Louis reprimanded Madame de Montespan when her behaviour at court too flagrantly disrespected...
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    chambers with Montespan in Avesnes, when the king was known to visit Montespan in her bed chamber, and the affair between the king and Montespan started. An...
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  • Awakens. From 2015 to 2018, she portrayed Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan in the Canal+ series Versailles. In 2020, Brewster starred as Shelby Dupree...
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  • Bourbon, comte de Toulouse, was one of the many children that Madame de Montespan presented to the Sun King during the latter's marriage to the Queen. He...
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