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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
duke of Luynes
Leonora Dori
Italian noble
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars
French noble (1620-1642)
Les Mignons
term
Olivier le Daim
Royal favourite
Louise de La Fayette
French noble (1618–1665)
Marie de Hautefort
French noble
Thérèse-Lucy de Dillon
(1751-1782)

Antoine Louis François de Bésiade
French noble
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)