Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchesse d’Orléans

14 January 2010

Portrait miniature of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchesse d’Orléans as Amphitrite by Rosalba Carrera. Françoise-Marie was the youngest daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Athénaïs de Montespan.

Some other portraits of the same sitter:

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International woman of history, biographer, posh doomer, thwarted nihilist, not goth, Saint-Just fan girl, chaotic good, anxious, flame haired Robespierre, ENFP, a sweet titbit for the Devil's mouth.

Currently working hard on my fifth book - a biography of Madame Élisabeth, sister of Louis XVI.

Book six will be looking at women guillotined during the Reign of Terror, while book seven will be MY LIFE'S WORK - a biography of Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just.

(If you're wondering where the 'sweet titbit for the devil's mouth' came from - apparently John Knox wrote it about one of my ancestresses, along with calling her a 'very Jezebel'.)

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