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French royal favourites

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Madame de Pompadour

chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

Madame du Barry

French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)

Diane de Poitiers

French noblewoman and courtier (1500-1566)

Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe

French princess (1749-1792)

Yolande de Polastron

French aristocrat and courtier (1749–1793)

Axel von Fersen the Younger

Swedish politician (1755-1810)

Concino Concini

Marshal of France

Charles d'Albert de Luynes

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars

French noble (1620-1642)

Olivier le Daim

Royal favourite

Louise de La Fayette

French noble (1618–1665)

Marie de Hautefort

Thérèse-Lucy de Dillon

Antoine Louis François de Bésiade

Marie-Catherine Pierrevive

French court official, a trusted favorite and confidant of the queen regent of France, Catherine de Medici

Valentin Esterházy

French commander (1740-1805)