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Louise de La Vallière

1644 - 1710

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Françoise-Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours (6 August 1644 – 6 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the mistress of King Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667. La Vallière joined the royal court in 1661 as maid-of-honour to Henrietta of England and soon became Louis XIV's mistress. Two of her five children by the King, Marie-Anne, Mademoiselle de Blois (Princess of Conti by marriage) and Louis, Count of Vermandois, survived infancy and were legitimised. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise de La Vallière has received more than 939,489 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Louise de La Vallière is the 471st most popular writer (down from 429th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from France (down from 507th in 2019) and the 84th most popular French Writer.

Louise de la Vallière was a mistress of Louis XIV, king of France. She was most famous for her love affair with the king, and for bearing him two children.

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  • 1.73

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louise de La Vallière ranks 471 out of 7,302. Before her are John Galsworthy, Eyvind Johnson, Margaret Atwood, Traudl Junge, Jules Michelet, and Athenaeus. After her are Joris-Karl Huysmans, Livius Andronicus, Milena Jesenská, Verner von Heidenstam, Natsume Sōseki, and Bohumil Hrabal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, Louise de La Vallière ranks 5. Before her are Antonio Stradivari, Matsuo Bashō, Ole Rømer, and Henrietta of England. After her are Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Jakob Ammann, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Louis-François de Boufflers, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, and Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha. Among people deceased in 1710, Louise de La Vallière ranks 2. Before her is Ole Rømer. After her are Emperor Higashiyama, Hennig Brand, Bernardo Pasquini, Louis, Prince of Condé, Gaspar Sanz, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, and Gottfried Kirch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise de La Vallière ranks 555 out of 6,770. Before her are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), René Laennec (1781), France Gall (1947), and Gustave Caillebotte (1848). After her are Maurice Utrillo (1883), Rashi (1040), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Suger (1080), Yolande de Polastron (1749), and Claude Louis Berthollet (1748).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louise de La Vallière ranks 84. Before her are Auguste Escoffier (1847), Boris Vian (1920), Jacques Hébert (1757), Héloïse (1101), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), and Jules Michelet (1798). After her are Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Henri Barbusse (1873), Gérard de Nerval (1808), and Anaïs Nin (1903).

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