La Duchesse

  Louise-Élisabeth de France, the favorite daughter  Louise-Elisabeth of France (1727-1759), daughter of France, then Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, is the eldest of the ten children of King Louis XV of France and Marie Leszczyńska. Born on August 14, 1727 in Versailles, she was the twin sister of Madame Henriette Madame Elisabeth with her twin sister Madame Henriette, by Pierre Gobert, Commissioned by Louis XV in 1732, 1737 As soon as she was born, she received the name "Madame Première". It was not until her baptism at Versailles on April 27, 1737 that she became Louise-Élisabeth, known as Madame Élisabeth, called "Madame" (after the king's eldest daughter). Her father more affectionately nicknamed her "Babette." She receives as godfather and godmother the cousins of the royal family, princes of blood: Louis-Philippe, Duke of Chartres, son of the Duke of Orleans, and Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon-Condé, widowed princess of Conti. W...

  Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France Marie Leszczyńska (in Polish Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska; Trzebnica, June 23, 1703 - Palace of Versailles, June 24, 1768) was a princess of Poland and later queen consort of France and Navarre through her marriage to Louis XV from France.   Queen Marie Leszczynska by Charles-Andre Van Loo, 1747 Marie was the second daughter of the dethroned King of Poland, Stanislaus I Leszcznki and of his wife Queen Catherine Opalinska.  Queen Catherine Opalinska, mother of Marie Leszczynska, by Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, 1725                                                   Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland, father of  Marie Leszczynska, by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1730 Marie had an older sister named Anne who was born in 1699. Her older sister, Anne Leszczyńska, died at the age of eighteen from pneumo...