Françoise Thérèse de Voyer de Dorée, known as ''Mademoiselle de Dorée'' ( 1712) was a French courtier.
[Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Mémoires complets et authentiques du duc de Saint-Simon sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la régence. T. 1,, A. Sautelet, Paris, 1829–1830] She is known for her affair with Louis XIV in 1681.
Dorée was born to René de Voyer, Segnieur de Dorée, Comte de Dorée, a member of the Royal Council, and Diane-Marie Joubert (d. 1683), one of the deputy governesses of the children of the king and Madame de Montespan.
Dorée was the unofficial lover of king
Louis XIV of France
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
in 1681; it was a temporary affair after the death of
Marie Angélique de Scorailles
Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Duchess of Fontanges (; July 1661 – 28 June 1681) was a French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XIV. Additionally she held the position of a lady-in-waiting to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Pala ...
. The affair caused a scandal at court and it was rumoured that
Madame de Montespan
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (), was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre, royal mistress of King Lou ...
had arranged it to disturb the relationship between the king and
Madame de Maintenon Madame may refer to:
* Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French
* Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel
* ''Madame'' ( ...
. The affair was temporary and ended quickly, and it was said that Madame de Maintenon asked the king to promise afterward that he would no longer sin in the future.
Dorée served as
maid of honour
A maid of honour is a junior attendant of a queen in royal households. The position was and is junior to the lady-in-waiting. The equivalent title and office has historically been used in most European royal courts.
Tudors and Stuarts
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to the king's daughter the Duchess of Bourbon between 1685 and 1686. She was banished to a convent in 1686. She was reportedly the mistress of Louis, comte de Cominges, in 1689. She was noted to have been an heir of the will of Cominges upon his death in 1712.
References
* K. F. Oelke,
Louis XIV and the Land of Love and Adventure: 1679 to 1699'
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