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Die große Liebe und zweite Gattin von Gaston d'Orléans
Gaston heiratete Marguerite heimlich im Kreise ihrer Familie in Nancy in der Nacht vom 2. auf den 3. Januar 1632. Aber als Thronfolger des französischen Königs Ludwig XIII., der bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt selbst noch keine eigenen Söhne besaß, hätte er sich die Erlaubnis seines ältesten Bruders besorgen müssen. Seine Ehe wurde daher im September 1634 in Frankreich für ungültig erklärt. Erst als sein Bruder Ludwig XIII. im Mai 1643 im Sterben lag, erlaubte ihm dieser, seine große Liebe offiziell zu heiraten.
Die Hofdame der französischen Königin und Regentin Anna von Spanien/Österreich, Madame de Motteville, berichtet über sie Folgendes: "The princess [Marguerite von Lothringen] never made long journeys, whether from crotchets or real illness; she seldom went out, declaring that the least agitation made her faint. I have sometimes heard Monsieur [ihren Gatten Gaston, der Herzog von Orléans] laughing about her, and telling the queen how she took the communion in her bed rather than go to the chapel which was close by, without her having, apparently, any real illness. When she came to see the queen [Anna von Spanien/Österreich], once in two years or so, she had herself carried in a chair, but with such fuss and affection that her arrival at the Palais-Royal was celebrated as if it were a little miracle. Often she would get only three steps from the Luxembourg [ihrem Schloss], when she had to be taken back, being attacked by some of the many ills she said she felt, but which never appeared. She ate bread which she carried in a provision pocket; ... Monsieur had married her during his exile from France, without the consent of the late king [Ludwig XIII.]. When Nancy [der Sitz ihrer Familie] was taken she had to fly, disguised as a page, in the bottom of a cart; and was forced to pay with great distresses for the honour she had gained in marrying Monsieur. ... She had a good mind, and reasoned well on all subjects about which she chose to talk. She seemed, by what she said, to have heart and ambition. She loved Monsieur ardently; and hated in the same way any one who could injure her with him. She was handsome in the features of her face, which were beautiful and well-formed; but she was not agreeable; her whole person lacked I know not what that was pleasing; but as for actual ugliness, she had it only in her teeth, which were already decayed. It was said of this princess that she was beautiful without being so, and had intellect but seemed to have none because she made no use of it. She was fat and thin both; her face was full and her bosom handsome, so her women said, but her hands and arms were very thin. It must also be said that she had not a fine figure, but neither was she deformed. It is also true that Monsieur loved her and did not love her. He lived with her and treated her well; he never deliberately annoyed her; and when he thought her dissatisfied or grieved he did all he could to cure her little thoughts. He never left her, and when he was at home he spent nearly all his time in her room, showing sometimes that he esteemed her virtue and her intelligence. But he had a favourite [the Abbé de la Rivière] whom she did not like ... Monsieur often laughed at her delicacies and whims with the ladies who served her, and even with the queen, to whom he used to say that she was visionary, that her piety was ridiculous, that she never talked except to her confessor, whom she consulted about the merest trifles. Neither did he spare her favourites, who were among the silliest creatures in Paris. ... Those who knew her intimately told me she was naturally insensible to friendship; and that, if she loved Monsieur, that feeling had no other operation in her than to incite her to scold him continually and cause him much vexation ... As the princess was both healthy and ill at the same time, and as she belonged to those virtuous women who like to follow their husbands, her physician obliged her much by ordering her to the baths of Bourbon because Monsieur was to take them. She ceased to complain in order to make the journey, because she always wanted to be with him ... She never left the coach in which Monsieur was, and seemed to bear the fatigues of the journey more easily than the most robust women. The Duchesse d'Orléans might justly have a passion for Monsieur." (in: Memoirs of Madame de Motteville, Volume 1, id., pp. 180-183).
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