Wer datete Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie?

Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie, genannt Madame de Bonneval (* 1746; † 1779) war die Mätresse des französischen Königs Ludwig XV. Aus der gemeinsamen Verbindung ging ein Sohn hervor, Benoît-Louis Le Duc, abbé (* 1764).

Als der Abt von Lustrac sie ermutigte, die Legitimation ihres Sohnes zu planen, beendete der König die Affäre und ließ sie am 25. Juli 1765 in die Bastille sperren. Am 18. August wurde sie mit einer Pension von 30.000 Livres entlassen. Sie heiratete nicht, lebte als Kostgängerin in mehreren Klöstern und hatte mehrere Liebesaffären, insbesondere mit dem Grafen von Langeac und dem amerikanischen Abenteurer Paul Jones. Sie war sehr verschuldet und gab jährlich etwa 100.000 Livres aus, die aus der königlichen Schatzkammer bezahlt wurden – sowohl von Ludwig XV. als auch von seinem Nachfolger Ludwig XVI.

Sie starb am 5. Juli 1779 im Alter von 32 Jahren an Krebs.

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom.

His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Great Britain and Spain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorraine and the Corsican Republic into the Kingdom of France. Historians generally criticize his reign and maintain that his incompetence and extravagance weakened France, depleted the treasury, discredited the absolute monarchy, and diminished the country's reputation internationally. However, a minority of scholars argue that he was popular during his lifetime, but that his reputation was later blackened by revolutionary propaganda. His grandson and successor Louis XVI inherited a kingdom on the brink of financial disaster and gravely in need of political reform, laying the groundwork for the French Revolution of 1789.