THE SUN KING’S SECRET WIFE — MARRIED, BUT NEVER QUEEN

Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon: the true love story of the Sun King and a prisoner's daughter he secretly married at Versailles around 1683, the governess who could never be queen of France. Born Françoise d'Aubigné, she was a penniless widow with no royal blood and no dowry, in a court where rank decided everything. A true story, drawn from court memoirs, church letters and the records of Versailles and Saint-Cyr. IN THIS VIDEO: A girl born while her father sat in the prison of Niort, raised between Martinique and Paris The poet's widow hired to hide the king's secret children How the king who once disliked her came to trust her above almost anyone The Affair of the Poisons, and the rules of rank that said no A secret night-time wedding before the Archbishop of Paris, and the promise never to declare it 32 years as the uncrowned queen of France, and the school she built at Saint-Cyr Her story is not simple. Her influence grew in the same years as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Recent research suggests she opposed the dragoons' cruelty but welcomed the conversions, and this video tells that part honestly. History's most unlikely loves — and every one of them is true. Follow for more true, impossible loves. Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon share one of the most remarkable forbidden love stories of 17th-century France: a secret, morganatic marriage between the Sun King and a woman of low fortune who became the most powerful woman at Versailles. A historical romance about love across the divide of rank, faith and power. #truestory #historicalromance #forbiddenlove #LouisXIV #MadameDeMaintenon #SunKing #Versailles #FrenchHistory #SecretMarriage #lovestory #history #royalty #17thcentury #France SOURCES: Wikipedia — Madame de Maintenon Wikipedia — Louis XIV Château de Versailles — Madame de Maintenon Catholic Encyclopedia — Marquise de Maintenon National Geographic — Louis XIV's secret wife