Cine s-a întâlnit cu Isabelle de Ludres?

Marie-Elisabeth de Ludres, cunoscută ca Isabelle de Ludres (1647 – 28 ianuarie 1726), a fost o nobilă franceză (marquise), doamnă de onoare, metresa regelui Ludovic al XIV-lea al Franței în perioada 1675-76, rivala metresei oficiale, Madame de Montespan.

S-a născut la Ludres, în ducatul de Lorena. A fost fiica lui Jean de Ludres și a Claude de Salles. În 1662, cvintagenarul Duce de Lorena și de Bar, Charles IV, în vizită la Poussay o remarcă pe tânăra de 15 ani și decide s-o ia de soție. Mai mare cu 43 de ani decât Isabelle, el este cunoscut pentru excomunicarea din cauza adulterului și bigamiei, abandonat de soția legitimă, ducesa Nicole. În 1637 cere autorizarea să se căsătorească cu metresa sa Béatrice de Cusance, prințesă de Cantecroix, cu care are doi copii.

După moartea ducesei (1657), Charles IV decide să se căsătorească cu Béatrix însă ducele este foarte aventurier. Logodna cu Isabelle durează un an de zile, apoi Charles este adus la ordine de Béatrix, cu care se căsătorește la 20 mai 1663 pentru a permite legitimarea copiilor lor. Béatrix moare la două săptămâni după nuntă, la 48 de ani. Charles IV se căsătorește apoi cu Marie-Louise d'Apremont care are 14 ani.

În 1664, Isabelle părăsește Poussay pentru curtea Franței. Devine doamnă de onoare a reginei Maria Tereza a Spaniei în 1670 și a Elisabetei Charlotte (cumnata regelui) în 1673. În 1675 începe relația cu regele Ludovic al XIV-lea.

Ludovic dorește ca relația să fie secretă și nu are planuri s-o facă favorita oficială, iar atunci când ea declară deschis că o va înlocui pe Madame de Montespan, Ludovic încheie relația lor.

Ludres părăsește Curtea în 1678 și se refugiază într-o mănăstire din Paris. În cele din urmă primește o pensie regală și se întoarce în Lorena. Este numită marchiză în 1720. A murit la 28 ianuarie 1726 la peste 80 de ani.

Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand [lwi lə ɡʁɑ̃]) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil [lə ʁwa sɔlɛj]), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch in history. An emblem of the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's legacy includes French colonial expansion, the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War involving the Habsburgs, and a controlling influence on the style of fine arts and architecture in France, including the transformation of the Palace of Versailles into a center of royal power and politics. Louis XIV's pageantry and opulence helped define the French Baroque style of art and architecture and promoted his image as supreme leader of France in the early modern period.

Louis XIV began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister Cardinal Mazarin. A believer in the divine right of kings, Louis XIV continued Louis XIII's work of creating a centralized state governed from a capital. Louis XIV sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France by compelling many members of the nobility to reside at his lavish Palace of Versailles. In doing so, he succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, many of whom had participated in the Fronde rebellions during his minority. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchy in France that endured until the French Revolution. Louis XIV enforced uniformity of religion under the Catholic Church. His revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished the rights of the Huguenot Protestant minority and subjected them to a wave of dragonnades, effectively forcing Huguenots to emigrate or convert, virtually destroying the French Protestant community.

During Louis' long reign, France emerged as the leading European power and regularly made war. A conflict with Spain marked his entire childhood, while during his personal rule, Louis fought three major continental conflicts, each against powerful foreign alliances: the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, and the War of the Spanish Succession. In addition, France contested shorter wars such as the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Warfare defined Louis's foreign policy, impelled by his personal ambition for glory and power: "a mix of commerce, revenge, and pique". His wars strained France's resources to the utmost, while in peacetime he concentrated on preparing for the next war. He taught his diplomats that their job was to create tactical and strategic advantages for the French military. Upon his death in 1715, Louis XIV left his great-grandson and successor, Louis XV, a powerful but war-weary kingdom, in major debt after the War of the Spanish Succession that had raged on since 1701.

Some of his other notable achievements include the construction of the 240 km (150 mi) Canal du Midi in Southern France, the patronage of artists (the playwrights Molière, Racine, the man of letters Boileau, the composer and dancer Lully, the painter Le Brun and the landscape architect Le Nôtre, all contributed to the apogee of French classicism, described during his lifetime as the "Grand Siècle", or even "the century of Louis XIV"), and the founding of the French Academy of Sciences.

Charles IV (5 April 1604 – 18 September 1675) was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.