Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois, Duchesse d’Orléans.
Portrait of both daughters of Louis XIV and Athénaïs de Montespan: Françoise-Marie and Louise-Françoise.
Françoise-Marie’s younger sister was Louise-Françoise, Mademoiselle de Nantes and later Duchesse de Condé.
There was another sister, Louise-Marie-Anne, Mademoiselle de Tours who died at the age of seven.
[...] posts about the daughters of Louis XIV can be seen here, here, here and [...]
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Ooh, yes, I already featured that portrait in, I think August sometime as I wrote a post about the museum exhibition that it is currently a part of.