Dame d'honneur or Dame d’honneur was a common title for two categories of
French ladies-in-waiting
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, who are often confused because of the similarity.
Dame d'honneur can be:
* Short for
Première dame d'honneur
''Première dame d'honneur'' ('first lady of honour'), or simply ''dame d'honneur'' ('lady of honour'), was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. Though the tasks of the post ...
, which were commonly shortened to Dame d'honneur, or;
* The full, formal title for
Dame du Palais
The Dame du Palais, originally only Dame, was an historical office in the Royal Court of France. It was a title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official position of personal attendant on a female member of the French Royal Family. The position ...
, which until 1674 was formally called Dame d'honneur, though commonly shortened to Dame.
French ladies-in-waiting