Louise de Bourbon de Maisonblanche, Baroness of La Queue (Paris, c. 17 June, 1676 – La Queue-les-Yvelines, 12 September 1718) was an illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and Claude de Vin des Œillets; Mademoiselle des Œillets was the lady-in-waiting to Madame de Montespan, Louis' long term mistress.
Born in Paris in 1676, she was one of many illegitimate children that Louis XIV had. She was officially declared daughter of Philippe de Mais...
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Louise de Bourbon de Maisonblanche, Baroness of La Queue (Paris, c. 17 June, 1676 – La Queue-les-Yvelines, 12 September 1718) was an illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and Claude de Vin des Œillets; Mademoiselle des Œillets was the lady-in-waiting to Madame de Montespan, Louis' long term mistress.
Born in Paris in 1676, she was one of many illegitimate children that Louis XIV had. She was officially declared daughter of Philippe de Maisonblanche, old Captain of the Guards, and of Lady Gabrielle de La Tour, his spouse;
Bought up in Paris by her mother, she did not receive the same attention that the daughters of Madame de Montespan and Louise de La Vallière did. She lived for a while at the château de Suisnes where her mother died in 1687 aged 50. Louise was then put in the care of François Le Signerre and her sister Catherine Le Signerre in Mulcent.
Louise remained confined at Mulcent with the Le Signerre sisters till the age of 20 in 1696. On 17 April that year, she married...
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