mmeguillotine: Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Monte
mmeguillotine:Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan and mistress of Louis XIV, was born on this day in 1640. Although the fascinating, witty, undeniably gorgeous and always controversial Madame de Montespan eventually lost her hold on her royal lover, she is still an ancestress of various European royal families as well as the current Orléans pretenders to the French throne. -- source link
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