This page contains a listing of notable French royal mistresses.
Clovis I
- Evochilde
Chlothar I
- Waldrada, Princess of the Lombards
- Valtrude of the Lombards
- Arnegundis
Charibert I
- Merofleda
- Clothilde
- Marcovefa
- Theogilda
Chilperic I
- Fredgunde d'Ardennes
Dagobert I
- Regintrude of Austrasia
- Berthilde
Charlemagne
- Gersuinda of the Saxons
- Amaltrud of Vienne
- Ethelind
- Sigrade
- Madelgard
- Regina
- Landrade des Herbages
- Adelindus
Louis the Pious
- Theodelinde of Sens
Louis the Stammerer
- Luitgrade of Saxony
- Adelheid of Paris
Charles the Simple ·Edgiva of Kent
- Frederuna von Ringleheim
Charles V
- Biette de Casinel (ca 1340 - ca 1380)
Charles VI
- Odette de Champdivers (ca 1384 - 1424)
Charles VII
- Agnès Sorel (ca 1422 - 1450)
- Antoinette de Maignelais (ca 1430 - ca 1461)
Louis XI
- Phélisé Regnard
- Marguerite de Sassenage (ca 1449 - 1471)
Francis I
- Françoise de Foix (1495 - 1537), countess of Châteaubriant
- Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508 - 1580), duchess of Étampes
- Mary Boleyn (1500 - 1543) (disputed)
Henry II
- Diane de Poitiers (1499 - 1566)
- Jane Fleming (or Jane Stewart) (ca 1508 - ca 1553)
- Filippa Duci (ca 1520 - ?)
- Nicole de Savigny (1535 - 1590), baroness of Fontette
Charles IX
- Marie Touchet (ca 1553 - 1638)
Henry III
- Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet
- Renée de Rieux de Châteauneuf
- Veronica Franco (1546 - 1591)
- Marie van Kleef (1553 - 1574), countess of Beaufort
Henry IV
- Diane d'Andoins (1554 - 1621)
- Françoise de Montmorency (1562 - ?)
- Esther Imbert (1570 - ca. 1593)
- Antoinette de Pons (1570 - 1632)
- Gabrielle d'Estrées (ca 1571 - 1599)
- Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579 - 1633), marquise of Verneuil
- Jacqueline de Bueil (ca 1580 - 1651)
- Charlotte des Essarts (ca 1580 - 1651)
- Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency (1594 - 1650), princess of Condé
- Charlotte de Sauve (c.1551- 1617)
Louis XIII
- Marie de Hautefort (1616 - 1691)
- Louise de La Fayette (ca 1616 - 1665)
Louis XIV
- Catherine Bellier (1614 - 1689), baronne de Beauvais
- Olympe Mancini (1638 — 1708)
- Lucie de la Motte-Argencourt
- Mademoiselle de Marivault
- Marie Mancini (1639 - 1715)
- A gardener's daughter who gave birth to a daughter
- Hortense Mancini (1646 – 1699)
- Henrietta Anne of England (1644 - 1670), his sister-in-law
- Louise de La Vallière (1644 - 1710), duchess of Vaujours
- Anne-Lucie de la Mothe-Houdancourt (1641-1709)
- Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont (1639 - 1678), princess of Monaco
- Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1640 - 1707), marquise of Montespan
- Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1633-1693), marquise of Thianges; sister of the above;
- Anne de Rohan-Chabot (1648 - 1709), princess of Soubise
- Françoise d'Aubigné (1635 - 1719), marquise of Maintenon
- Claude de Vin des Œillets (ca 1637 - 1687)
- Isabelle de Ludres (1687 - 1722)
- Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille (1661 - 1681), duchess of Fontanges
- Charlotte-Éléonore Madeleine de la Motte Houdancourt, Duchesse de Ventadour (1654–1744)
Louis XV
- Louise Julie de Mailly (1710 - 1751), countess of Mailly
- Pauline-Félicité de Mailly (1712 - 1741), marquise of Vintimille
- Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly (1713 - 1760), duchess of Lauraguais
- Marie-Anne de Mailly (1717 – 1744), marquise of La Tournelle, duchess of Châteauroux
- Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (1721 - 1764), marquise of Pompadour
- Jeanne Bécu (1743 - 1793), countess du Barry
- Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737 - 1815)
- Françoise de Châlus (1734 - 1821), duchess of Narbonne-Lara
- Marguerite Catherine Haynault (1736 - 1823), marquise of Montmélas
- Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (1743 - 1826)
- Anne Couffier de Romans (1737 - 1808), baroness of Meilly-Coulonge
- Louise Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (1746 - 1779), called Madame de Bonneval
- Irène du Buisson de Longpré (? - 1767)
- Catherine Éléonore Bénard (1740 - 1769)
- Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet (1731 - 1800)
Louis XVIII
- Zoé Talon (1785 - 1852), countess of Cayla
- Emma Ferguson
- Oliver Fairhurst
Louis Philippe I
- Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830)
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“Sheathey call him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passersall.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
“Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“In most other modern societies working mothers are not put under these special and exaggerated pressures. For example, French and English mothers often prefer to breast-feed their babies, but they do not feel that their womanhood is at stake if they fail to do so. Nor does anyone else.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)
“The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.”
—William Blackstone (17231780)