This article contains a listing of notable French royal mistresses.
This list includes historically recognised and popularly attributed mistresses:[11]
Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)
Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)
- Fleurette de Nérac,[12] vers 1571–1572, fille d’un jardinier de Nérac
- Charlotte de Sauve (c. 1551–1617), mistress in 1572.[13]
- Bretine de Duras, mistress 1573–1574
- Louise de la Béraudière, called « La belle Rouet », mistress in 1575, maid of honour of Queen Margaret
- Louise Borré, mistress 1575–1576, daughter of a royal notary. She gave him a son, Hervé (1576–1643)[14]
- Jeanne de Tignonville, mistress 1577–1578
- Victoire de Ayala, mistress in 1578, maid of honour of Catherine de' Medici
- Mlle Rebours, mistress in 1579, maid of honour of Queen Margaret
- Mlle de Montagu, mistress in 1579
- Mme d’Allous, mistress in 1579
- Aimée Le Grand, mistress in 1579
- Arnaudine, mistress in 1579
- La garce de Goliath », mistress in 1579
- Catherine de Luc, mistress in 1579. She died of hunger when Henry abandoned her, leaving behind their child.[15]
- Anne de Cambefort, mistress in 1579. She committed suicide by jumping out of a window after Henry left her[15]
- Françoise de Montmorency (1566–6 December 1641), mistress 1579–1581, maid of honour of Queen Margaret. She had one stillborn daughter with the king in 1581.
- Diane d'Andouins, called « la belle Corisande » (c. 1554 – c. 1584)
- Esther Imbert (or Ysambert), mistress 1587–1588. She had two sons with Henry.
- Martine, rochelaise, en 1587. She had one child with Henry.
- Antoinette de Pons (1570–1632), marquess of Guercheville
- Catherine de Verdun[16]
- Mme Quelin, mistress in 1598
- Isabelle Potier, mistress 1598–1599
- Mlle Clein, mistress in 1599
- La Glandée, mistress in 1599
- Marie-Françoise de La Bourdaisière, sister of Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress in 1599
- Jacqueline de Bueil (c. 1580–1651)
- Charlotte des Essarts (c. 1580–1651), mistress 1607–1609
- Angélique Paulet, mistress in 1610
Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)
Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)
After 1755, unofficial lovers of the king who did not belong to the nobility were often kept at the Parc-aux-Cerfs.[17]
- 1738: NN, a butcher's daughter in Versailles
- 1738: Thérèse-Eulalie de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1705–1739), marquise de Beuvron
- 1738: Marie-Anne de Vougny (1716–1783) Madame Amelot
- 1748: Anne-Marie de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1729–1760), princesse de Robecq.
- 1748: Marie-Anne-Françoise de Noailles, comtesse de La Marck (1719–1793).
- 1749: Elisabeth-Charlotte Huguet de Sémonville (1715–1784), comtesse d'Estrades.
- 1749: Marie-Françoise de Carbonnel de Canisy (1725–1796), marquise d’Antin puis comtesse de Forcalquier.
- 1750: Alexandrine Sublet d'Heudicourt, (1721–1800) marquise de Belsunce.
- 1750: Françoise de Chalus, duchesse de Narbonne-Lara, première femme de chambre de la duchesse de Parme (1734–1821).
- 1750–1750: Irène du Buisson de Longpré (d. 1767)
- 1750–1751: Marie Geneviève Radix de Sainte-Foy (1729–1809)
- 1752: Mlle Trusson, femme de chambre de la dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe.
- 1752: Jeanne-Marguerite de Niquet (fl. 1732–1795) dite Mlle de Niquet.
- 1752: Mlle de Saint-André
- 1752–1755: Thérèse Guerbois
- 1752–1752: Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré (1733–1753)
- 1752–1754: Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737–1815)
- 1755–1755: Françoise de Chalus (1734–1821), duchess of Narbonne-Lara
- 1755–1757: Brigitte O'Murphy (1729–1793)
- 1755: Mlle Fouquet, daughter of a hairdresser
- 1755: Mlle Robert
- 1755–1759: Mlle David
- 1755–1759: Mlle Armory, « Mimi», daughter of a ballet dancer
- 1756: Gabrielle-Charlotte Françoise d‘Hénin-Liétard (1729–1809), vicomtesse de Cambis, née princesse de Chimay
- 1756: Dorothée, daughter of a water carrier in Strasbourg.
- 1756: Mlle Selin
- 1757–1757: Marie Anne de Coislin (1732–1817)
- 1758: Marie-Louise de Marny (fl. 1737 – fl. 1793), Madame de Giambone
- 1759: Marie-Madeleine Couppier de Romans, Madame Varnier
- 1759–1762: Marguerite-Catherine Haynault (1736–1823), marquise of Montmelas
- 1760–1763: Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (1743–1826)
- 1760–1765: Anne Couppier de Romans (1737–1808), baroness of Meilly-Coulonge
- 1762–1765: Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (1746–1779), called Madame de Bonneval
- 1763–1765: Anne Thoinard de Jouy (1739–1825)
- 1763: Marie-Françoise-Marguerite de Talleyrand-Périgord (1727–1775), comtesse de Périgord
- 1764: Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de Gramont (1730–1794)
- 1764: Louise Jeanne Marie de Courtarvel de Pezé (1733–1789), marquise de Dreux-Brézé
- 1763–1765: Anne Thoynard de Jouy, comtesse d’Esparbès de Lussan (1739–1825)
- 1765: Marie-Adélaïde de Bullioud (1743–1793), comtesse de Séran
- 1768–1768: Catherine Éléonore Bénard (1740–1769)
- 1768–1768: Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet (1731–1800)
- 1768: Jeanne-Marguerite Salvetat (1748–1838), actress
- 1771: "demoiselle de Smith"
- 1771: Madame Bèche, wife of a musician of the royal chapel
- 1771: Françoise-Marie-Antoinette de Saucerotte (1756–1815), Mademoiselle Raucourt, actress
- 1772: Madame d’Amerval
- 1773: Rose-Marie-Hélène de Tournon (1757–1782), vicomtesse du Barry
- 1774–1774: Albertine-Elisabeth Pater (1742–1817)
- Date unknown: Marthe-Antoinette Aubry de Vatan (1720 – after 1777)
- Date unknown: Mme de Grandis, Mme de Martinville, Mlle de Ville, courtesan
- Date unknown: Mme de Beaunier, Mlle de Malignan, Mme de Salis