"Maid of Lorraine prophecies For some years before and around the time of activity of Joan of Arc, a number of vague prophecies concerning a young Maid who would save France were circulating. The prophecies were attributed to several sources, including St. Bede the Venerable, Euglide of Hungary, and Merlin. Some of these spoke of a Maid who was supposed to come from the ""borders of Lorraine"". Since Joan's village was near the border between France and the Duchy of Lorraine in the Holy Roman Empire, at the time many in France believed in her. During her examination at Poitiers,"
"of Arc is actually a myth. Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (; ; 6 January – 30 May 1431), nicknamed ""The Maid of Orléans"" (), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in north-east France. Joan claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in"
"Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (; ; 6 January – 30 May 1431), nicknamed ""The Maid of Orléans"" (), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in north-east France. Joan claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned"
"order to help educate the local girls. She was known as ""Madame d'Orléans"" while at Chelles from 1719 until 1734. She died at the age of forty-four from smallpox at the Convent de la Madeleine de Traisnel in Paris. Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (Marie Louise Adélaïde; 13 August 1698 – 10 February 1743) was the third daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was Abbess of Chelles. Marie Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans was born at the Palace of Versailles on 13 August"
"Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (Marie Louise Adélaïde; 13 August 1698 – 10 February 1743) was the third daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was Abbess of Chelles. Marie Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans was born at the Palace of Versailles on 13 August 1698. After the marriage of her aunt Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Louise Adélaïde was known at court as ""Mademoiselle de Chartres"". She assumed the style of ""Mademoiselle d'Orléans"" in 1710 after her older sister Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans married Charles,"
"The Maid of Orleans (poem) The Maid of Orleans () is a satirical poem by François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name, Voltaire. It was first published in 1899, but Voltaire had written it over a century beforehand; while he had started writing the text in 1730, he never completed it. It was translated into English by W. H. Ireland. Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age, and ""The Maid of Orleans"" was also certainly one of his more contentious works. An epic and scandalous satire concerning the life of the"
"Adélaïde d'Orléans Louise Marie ""Adélaïde"" Eugénie d'Orléans (Paris, 23 August 1777 – Paris, 31 December 1847) was a French princess, one of the twin daughters of Philippe d'Orléans, known as ""Philippe Égalité"" during the French Revolution, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon. She was titled ""Mademoiselle de Chartres"" at birth, ""Mademoiselle d'Orléans"" at the death of her twin sister in 1782, ""Mademoiselle"" (1783–1812), ""Madame Adélaïde"" (1830). As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a ""princesse du sang"". Adélaïde was raised according to the liberal principles of her governess, Madame de Genlis, principles which also became her"
"Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Duchess of Berry (20 August 1695 in Palace of Versailles – 21 July 1719 in Paris), known affectionally with the moniker Joufflotte, was a member of the House of Orléans who married Charles, Duke of Berry. Louise Élisabeth was born at the Palace of Versailles. She was the eldest of the surviving children of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France, and of his wife Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France. She was given the honorary title of ""Mademoiselle d'Orléans"" at birth. After her marriage the"
"Marie Louise Madeleine Victoire d’Argenton Marie Louise Madeleine Victoire d’Argenton (1684-1749), was the royal mistress of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans from 1702 until 1710. She was the mother of Jean Philippe d'Orléans. She was the daughter of Daniel le Bel and Marie Anne Masparault. She was from a noble family and maid of honor to the mother of Philippe. When they had a child, she lost her position as courtier, but was provided a house by Philippe, and their relationship became public. In 1706, she was given the title countess d’Argenton. In 1709, she was the hostess of the"
"Bathilde d'Orléans Bathilde d'Orléans (Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde; 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822) was a French princess of the blood of the House of Orléans. She was sister of ""Philippe Égalité"", the mother of the executed Duke of Enghien and aunt of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Married to the young Duke of Enghien, a distant cousin, she was always known as the Duchess of Bourbon following the birth of her son. She was known as ""Citoyenne Vérité"" during the French Revolution. Balthilde was the Grand Mistress of the French Masonic Lodge of adoption, in parallel"
"24 February 1848. She is buried in the Orléans family necropolis in the Royal Chapel of Dreux. Adélaïde d'Orléans Louise Marie ""Adélaïde"" Eugénie d'Orléans (Paris, 23 August 1777 – Paris, 31 December 1847) was a French princess, one of the twin daughters of Philippe d'Orléans, known as ""Philippe Égalité"" during the French Revolution, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon. She was titled ""Mademoiselle de Chartres"" at birth, ""Mademoiselle d'Orléans"" at the death of her twin sister in 1782, ""Mademoiselle"" (1783–1812), ""Madame Adélaïde"" (1830). As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a ""princesse du sang"". Adélaïde was"
"of the themes and textual content for which the original content had been so scorned. The Maid of Orleans (poem) The Maid of Orleans () is a satirical poem by François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name, Voltaire. It was first published in 1899, but Voltaire had written it over a century beforehand; while he had started writing the text in 1730, he never completed it. It was translated into English by W. H. Ireland. Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age, and ""The Maid of Orleans"" was also certainly one"
"Madame de Montesson ""Charlotte""-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou (4 October 1738 – 6 February 1806) was a mistress to Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and ultimately, his wife; however, Louis XV would not allow her to become the Duchess. She wrote and acted in several plays. She is known simply as ""Madame de Montesson"". ""Charlotte""-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou was born in Paris of an old Breton family. On 11 October 1757, she married the seventy-year-old widower Jean Baptiste, Marquis of Montesson, who died in 1769. Her beauty and intelligence attracted the attention of the"
"Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, ( – ) known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the eldest daughter of Gaston d'Orléans, and his first wife Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried and childless, leaving her vast fortune to her cousin, Philippe of France. After a string of proposals from various members of European ruling families, including Charles II of England, Afonso VI of Portugal, and Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy, she eventually fell in love with the courtier, Antoine Nompar de Caumont"
"Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (13 October 1648 – 14 January 1664) was born a Princess of France and was the Duchess of Savoy as the first wife of Charles Emmanuel II. She was a first cousin of Louis XIV as well of her husband. She was the shortest-serving Savoyard consort, dying at the age of fifteen, childless. Orléans was born at the Château de Saint Germain en Laye outside Paris in 1648. She was the youngest surviving daughter of Gaston d'Orléans and his second wife Marguerite of Lorraine. From birth, she was styled ""Mademoiselle de Valois"", derived from"
"Louise of Orléans Louise of Orléans (Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle; 3 April 1812 – 11 October 1850) was a French princess who became the first Queen of the Belgians as the second wife of King Leopold I. She was also known as Louise-Marie. Born in Palermo, Sicily, on 3 April 1812, she was the eldest daughter of the future Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and of his wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. As a child, she had a religious and ""bourgeoisie"" education thanks to the part played by her mother and her aunt, Princess Adélaïde of Orléans"
"Marie Anne d'Orléans Marie Anne d'Orléans, ""petite-fille de France"" (Marie Anne; 9 November 1652 – 17 August 1656) was a French Princess and youngest daughter of Gaston d'Orléans. She held the rank of ""Grand daughter of France"". She was a member of the House of Orléans. Born at the Palais d'Orléans, the present day Luxembourg Palace in Paris, she was the youngest daughter born to the Duke and Duchess of Orléans. Her father, Gaston d'Orléans, was the youngest brother of the late Louis XIII; as such, Marie Anne was born during the reign of his first cousin, the 12-year-old Louis"
"to dance with grace or to be an accomplished rider. After the death of the Duke of Orléans, his widow moved with her daughters to the Luxembourg Palace in Paris and took the sixteen-year-old Louise with them. Through the influence of a distant kinswoman, Mme de Choisy, Louise was named Maid of honour to Princess Henrietta Anne of England, sister of King Charles II of England, who was about her own age and had just married Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, King Louis XIV' brother. Henrietta (known as ""Madame"") was extremely attractive and joined the court at Fontainebleau in 1661."
"Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, (20 October 1700 – 19 January 1761) was the Duchess of Modena and Reggio by marriage. She was the third daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and of his wife, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon. She was born a ""princesse du sang"". When a married woman, she had ten children. Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans was born at the Palais-Royal, her parents' residence in Paris. As a young child, Charlotte Aglaé was known at court as ""Mademoiselle de Valois"". Her second name comes from the youngest of the three Greek Charites; ""Aglaea"". At a young age, she"
"Amélie of Orléans Princess Amélie of Orléans (28 September 1865 – 25 October 1951) was the last Queen consort of Portugal. Wife of Carlos I of Portugal, she was known to her husband's subjects as ""Maria Amélia de Orleães"". As the eldest daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and his wife, Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, she was a ""Princess of Orléans"" by birth. Amélie's paternal grandparents were Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and Duchess Helena of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Her maternal grandparents were Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, and the Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain. The Dukes of Orléans and"
"de Dreux in 1816, as the final resting place for the Orléans family. Bathilde d'Orléans Bathilde d'Orléans (Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde; 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822) was a French princess of the blood of the House of Orléans. She was sister of ""Philippe Égalité"", the mother of the executed Duke of Enghien and aunt of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Married to the young Duke of Enghien, a distant cousin, she was always known as the Duchess of Bourbon following the birth of her son. She was known as ""Citoyenne Vérité"" during the French Revolution. Balthilde"
"in many paintings of the regent. Marie-Madeleine de Parabère Marie-Madeleine de La Vieuville, Marquise de Parabère, sometimes wrongly referred to as ""Marie-Thérèse"" (1693-1755), was a French aristocrat. She was the official mistress of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, during his tenure as regent of France during the minority of Louis XV of France, and as such, was a well known public figure during the French regency years (1715-1723). Marie-Madeleine de Parabère was the only child of René-Francois de La Vieuville and Marie Louise de La Chaussee d'Eu, and married Caesar-Alexandre de Baudéan, Marquis de Parabère (d. 1716) in 1711. Her"
"Marie-Madeleine de Parabère Marie-Madeleine de La Vieuville, Marquise de Parabère, sometimes wrongly referred to as ""Marie-Thérèse"" (1693-1755), was a French aristocrat. She was the official mistress of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, during his tenure as regent of France during the minority of Louis XV of France, and as such, was a well known public figure during the French regency years (1715-1723). Marie-Madeleine de Parabère was the only child of René-Francois de La Vieuville and Marie Louise de La Chaussee d'Eu, and married Caesar-Alexandre de Baudéan, Marquis de Parabère (d. 1716) in 1711. Her mother was a lady-in-waiting to Marie"
"Louise Diane d'Orléans Louise Diane d'Orléans (27 June 1716 – 26 September 1736) was the sixth daughter and last child of Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (""Regent of the Kingdom"" from 1715 to 1723) and his wife, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, the youngest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was born during the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans, the Regent of Louis XV of France. The Princess of Conti by marriage, she died in childbirth at the age of twenty. Some sources refer to her as ""Louis Diane"". Louise Diane d'Orléans was"
"(Paris, 1904); and G. Capon and R Yves-Plessis, ""Les Théâtres clandestins du xviii' siècle"" (1904). Madame de Montesson ""Charlotte""-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou (4 October 1738 – 6 February 1806) was a mistress to Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and ultimately, his wife; however, Louis XV would not allow her to become the Duchess. She wrote and acted in several plays. She is known simply as ""Madame de Montesson"". ""Charlotte""-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou was born in Paris of an old Breton family. On 11 October 1757, she married the seventy-year-old widower Jean Baptiste, Marquis"
"Princess Marie of Orléans (1813–1839) Marie Christine Caroline Adélaïde Françoise Léopoldine d'Orléans (12 April 1813 in Palermo – 6 January 1839 in Pisa) was a French princess, artist, and, by her marriage, duchess of Württemberg (1837). Before her marriage she was styled ""Mademoiselle de Valois"". She was the third child (and second daughter) of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia, daughter of King Ferdinand I of Naples. She was solidly educated on her father's insistence, and took up sculpture and drawing. She had her own studio installed in the Tuileries Palace in which she would work."
"Jean Philippe d'Orléans Jean Philippe, ""bâtard d'Orléans (28 August 1702 – 16 June 1748), called le chevalier d'Orléans or le Grand Prieur d'Orléans"", was an illegitimate son of Philippe d'Orléans, nephew and son-in-law of Louis XIV. Born at Chilly-Mazarin, a southern suburb of Paris, he was the illegitimate son of Philippe d'Orléans (future Regent of France, 1715–1723, acting for the infant Louis XV) and his mistress Marie-Louise Madeleine Victorine Le Bel de La Bussière (1684–1748), known as the comtesse d'Argenton or madame d'Argenton. His mother, known as ""Mademoiselle de Séry"" was Lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Duchess of Orléans. She started"
"Jeanne des Armoises Jeanne des Armoises (also Claude des Armoises; ) was a French adventurer living in the 15th century. She was reportedly a soldier in the Pope's army in Italy. Following Joan of Arc's execution, several young women came forward claiming to be the Maid, including Claude des Armoises. In 1434 Joan of Arc's brothers Pierre and Jean temporarily accepted Jeanne des Armoises as the actual Joan. Over the next 6 years, the brothers and their ""sister"" traveled from town to town, beginning at Orléans, receiving lavish gifts from Joan's many admirers, among them, Princess Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1390-1451),"
"Marie de Rohan Marie de Rohan (Marie Aimée; December 1600 – 12 August 1679) was a French courtier and political activist, famed for being the center of many of the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century in France. In various sources, she is often known simply as ""Madame de Chevreuse"". Marie de Rohan, styled ""Mademoiselle de Montbazon"", was the daughter of Hercule de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon and head of the House of Rohan, possessed of great estates in Brittany and Anjou, enjoying princely rank at the French court. Her mother was Madeleine de Lenoncourt. In September"
"Louise Marie d'Orléans Louise Marie d'Orléans (5 August 1726 – 14 May 1728) was a French princess of the blood by birth. She died in infancy. Louise Marie d'Orléans was born at the Palais-Royal to Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans and his Duchess, the Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, who died three days after giving birth. Her father was a second cousin of the then King Louis XV, and a great-grandson of Louis XIII. Her mother was the last child of the famous general Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden. Louise Marie was initially known at court as ""Mademoiselle d'Orléans"" and, after"
"Rémusat, Elisabeth Baude de Talhouët, Lauriston, d'Arberg, Marie Antoinette Duchâtel, Sophie de Segur, Séran, Colbert, Savary and Aglaé Louise Auguié Ney. As ""dame d'honneur"" it was her task to supervise the ladies-in-waiting, organize the household of the empress, decide about the visits, invitations and presentations. She was described as highly efficient in her task. Described as a haughty ""grande dame"" and as an ancien regime royalist she is said to have cowed the emperor in to silence at times. Napoleon disliked her and called her ""a little cripple, as stupid as she is ugly"". According to Laure Junot, she never"
"Grace Elliott Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754–16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy who resided in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. Elliott was an eyewitness to events which she detailed in her memoirs, ""Journal of my life during the French Revolution"" (""Ma vie sous La Révolution"") published posthumously in 1859. She was the mistress of the Duke of Orléans, and the future George IV, by whom she is said to have borne an illegitimate daughter. Elliott trafficked correspondence and hid French aristocrats escaping from the French Revolution. She was arrested several times but managed"
"La Païva Esther Lachmann (; 7 May 181921 January 1884), generally known as La Païva (), was the most famous of 19th-century French courtesans. A notable investor and architecture patron, and a collector of jewels, she had a personality so hard-bitten that she was described as the ""one great courtesan who appears to have had no redeeming feature"". Count Horace de Viel-Castel, a society chronicler, called her ""the queen of kept women, the sovereign of her race"". Rising from modest circumstances in her native Russia to becoming one of the most infamous women in mid-19th-century France to marrying one of"