Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, marquise de Prie
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noblewoman notable for her intriguing during the reign of Louis XV
Louis XV of France
Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
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She was the daughter of the rich but unscrupulous financier
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Étienne Berthelot de Pléneuf. At the age of fifteen she was married to Louis, marquis de Prie, and went with him to the court of Savoy
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at Turin
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, where he was ambassador.
She was 21 when she returned to France, and was soon the declared mistress
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of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon. During his ministry (1723–1725) she was in several respects the real ruler of France, her most notable triumph being the marriage of Louis XV of France
Louis XV of France
Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
to Marie Leszczynska instead of to Mademoiselle de Vermandois
Henriette Louise de Bourbon
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, the younger sister of the Duc de Bourbon. But when, in 1725, she sought to have Bourbon's rival Fleury exiled, her ascendancy came to an end. After Fleury's recall and the banishment of Bourbon to Chantilly
Chantilly, Oise
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, Madame de Prie was exiled to Courbépine
Courbépine
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, where she committed suicide
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the next year.
See M. H. Thirion, Madame de Prie (Paris, 1905).
Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling
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played de Prie in the 1996 TV movie La dernière fête, titled in English The Fall of the Marquise de Prie.