King Louis XV Archives - History of Royal Women

The Year of Marie Antoinette – Becoming Queen

Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 2

At the end of April 1774, King Louis XV of France began to suffer from bouts of fever. He had been warned by his doctors “not to make love quite so often.” His beloved mistress, Madame du Barry, tried to comfort him. The Duke of Croÿ wrote, “For eight days, the King often looked and [read more]

Marie-Louise O’Murphy – The Irish petite maîtresse (Part one)

Saturday, 27 June 2020, 6:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 1

In 1714, a man named Daniel O’Murphy and a woman named Marguerite Iquy were married in the town of Rouen, France. The pair both came from Irish families who had followed King James II into exile in France when he had lost his throne to his daughter Mary II and her husband William III. The [read more]