Wer ist Mona Lisa? – Identifizierung einer Unbekannten mit Hilfe historischer Quellen
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In einem Brief der Madame de Maintenon, datiert auf den 1. Dezember 1714, erfahren wir etwas über eine gewisse Mademoiselle de Fleury, eine uneheliche Tochter des Dauphins Ludwig: " ... I can inform you who this Mademoiselle de Fleury is. You will, perhaps, be surprised to hear that she is sister to the King of Spain [Philipp V.], being a natural daughter of the late Monseigneur, and a very pretty and amiable actress, whose name was Raisin [Françoise Pitel de Longchamp (1662-1721), verheiratet mit Jean-Baptiste Raisin (1656-1693)], and whom you may have seen. Monseigneur left this infant in charge of the Princess de Conti [Marie-Anne de Bourbon (1666-1738), illegitime Tochter des französischen Königs Ludwig XIV.], desiring her to get one of her women to have it educated: she has always been in a convent, and the circumstance of the nun's knowing who she was, has been the cause of her not taking the veil. She is quite weary of this mode of life, and wishes to marry. Her complexion is fair, she is well shaped, and very like Monseigneur. I think she is now about seventeen or eighteen: I did not know that she was called De Fleury, and understood nothing from the letter, of which you sent me a copy. Marshal de Villeroi has cleared the matter up to me, and I immediately gave the letter in question to the King [Ludwig XIV.], in order that he might arrange with the Princess de Conti what was best to be done. The Princess will be very much surprised, for she knows nothing of what it contains ... It would be desirable that this adventure were not so public as it is; but after all, this poor girl is nobody, since Monseigneur never acknowledged her. The Princess de Conti often presses the King to get her married, and he consents that a husband should be found for her in some distant province; but the times are so bad, that he does not think he ought to make a distinguished match for her." ... und in einem anderen Brief, datiert auf den 5. Mai 1715, lesen wir: "... It is true that Mademoiselle de Fleury marries M. -. He contents himself with certain bills to the amount of fifty thousand crowns ... the Princess de Conti cannot be too much commended for endeavouring to establish this girl, as well as she would have been able to do, under the eyes of the Dauphin." (in: The Secret Correspondence of Madame de Maintenon with the Princess des Ursins, Volume II, London 1827, pp. 83-84/104-105).
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