Fran%C3%A7oise Marie de Bourbon


Franoise Marie de Bourbon, lgitime de France was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his matresseentitre, FranoiseAthnas, marquise de Montespan. At the age ofshe was wed to her first cousin Philippe dOrlans, future regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. Through four of the eight children she bore him in an unhappy marriage she became the ancestress of several of Europes Roman Catholic monarchs of the 19th and 20th centuries, notably those of Belgium, Italy, Spain and France.

Franoise Marie was born in 1677, at the chteau de Maintenon, owned since 1674 by Franoise dAubign, marquise de Maintenon, the governess of Madame de Montespans illegitimate children by Louis XIV. She and her younger brother, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse were cared for by Mmes de Monchevreuil, de Colbert and de Jussac under Mme. de Maintenons supervision, their mother being eventually ostracized from court. As a child, she was brought occasionally to Versailles to visit her parents.

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