A fascinating lady, Madame de Montespan.

She was heavily implicated in the Affair of the Poisons – and features in my novel about the event, The Shadows of Versailles.
🍰A bit late (sorry !) 5 October 1640, baptism of Françoise de Rochechouart at Lussac-les-Châteaux. The future Madame de Montespan would go on to become perhaps the most famous and celebrated of Louis XIV's mistresses.

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