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| Louise de Lorraine Queen of France |
Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont:
Louise de Lorraine-Mercoeur:
Louise de Vaudemont:
the White Queen.
My Beautiful Enemy: " . . . Queen Louisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a passionate opponent of the French Revolution and a declared enemy of Napoleon. Queen Louisa openly encouraged her husband King Friedrich Wilhelm III to go to war and favoured the Russian alliance. Napoleon called her 'My Beautiful Enemy'."
the Only Man in Prussia: " . . . (T)he stunningly beautiful Queen Louise . . . had been a fervent opponent of Bonaparte, but despite her animosity was described by the French Emperor as 'the only man in Prussia.'. . ."
the Blessed: "The Blessed Louise of Savoy was an angel of piety from her childhood, and after the death of her husband, Hugues de Chalons, prince of Orange, she being then twenty-seven years of age and free from all obligations to her family, was solemnly veiled a nun in the convent of the Clairists at Orbe, which had been founded by a princess of her husband's family early in the fifteenth century, and still observed the rule in all its primitive rigor. Here she died in 1503 at the age of forty-two. . . ." (Paulist Fathers: 768)
Louise-Henriette-Francoise of Lorraine, Duchess of Bouillon.
Baby-faced Louise:
Bathsheba:
Fubbs: "Among them is a portrait of Louise de Keroualle, Baroness of Petersfield, Countess of Farnham, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny. The London mob called her 'Mrs. Carwell'; Nell Gwyn called her 'Squintabella' and, as enlightenment upon Louise's technique in getting her own way, 'the Weeping Willow'. The King called her 'Fubbs'; and Sir John Evelyn and others spoke of her 'baby face'. French baby-faced Louise, prime object of the English rabble's hatred, gave Charles the Second one of the longest of his amours, and was in at the death." (Tarkington: 86)
la Belle Louise:
Louise de la Beaume-Leblanc, Duchesse de La Valliere.
Louise-Francoise de La Baume Le Blanc
Louise de La Valliere, Duchesse de La Valliere et de Vaujours
Mademoiselle de La Valliere
the Christian Venus of France
the Modest Violet.
Louise de La Valliere, Duchesse de La Valliere et de Vaujours
Mademoiselle de La Valliere
the Christian Venus of France
the Modest Violet.
Louise de La Beraudiere du Rouhet
la Belle Inconnue (the Beautiful Stranger): "The Belle Inconnue, whom the King had toasted, was Madame de Mailly. She came of a noble family of the Nesles, who dated from the eleventh century. Her father, a cynical witty roue, had dissipated his vast fortune in the orgies of the Regency, and trailed in the dust the honor of one of the noblest families in France. . . ." (Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Vol 6: 137)
the Athlete of Justice: " . . . In the statutes of Parma of 1347, Luchino was dubbed 'the athlete of justice' for his role in eliminating unfair laws. . . ." (Black: 116)
the Most Unfortunate Woman in Modern History (by Ferdinand Gregorovius)
the Unluckiest Woman in History (by Ferdinand Gregorovius)
la Belle Ferroniere.
Madame Guillotine.
the Moor (It. il Moro)
--" . . . This 'bel peullo,' as he is called in the despatch announcing the news to his proud father, received the name of Lodovico Mauro, which was afterwards altered to Lodovico Maria, when, after his recovery from a dangerous illness at five years old, his mother placed him under the special protection of the Blessed Virgin . . . In documents still preserved in the Paduan archives the boy is twice over mentioned as Lodovicus Maurus filius quartus masculus, but the silver image itself bore the inscription, 'Pro sanitate filii Lodovici Mariae, 1461. There can, however, be little doubt that Maurus was the second name first given to Lodovico, and that this was the true origin of the surname Il Moro by which Francesco Sforza's son became famous in after-years. The most ingenious explanations of this name have been invented by Italian chroniclers. Prato and Lomazzo both say that Lodovico was called Il Moro because of the darkness of his complexion and long black hair . . . but Paolo Giovio, who had seen Lodovico at Como, asserts that his complexion was fair, and he owed his surname to the mulberry-tree which he adopted as his device, because it waits till the winter is well over to put forth its leaves, and is therefore called the most prudent of all trees. As a matter of fact, there is no doubt that the surname was given to Lodovico by his parents. 'He was first called Moro by his father Francesco and his mother Bianca in his earliest years,' writes Prato. . . The name naturally provoked puns. The dark-eyed boy with his long hair and bushy eyebrows went by the nickname of Moro, and as he grew up, adopted both the Moor's head and the mulberry-tree as his badge. . . . " (Ady & Cartwright: 14)
--" . . . The Milanese people affectionately referred to him as il Moro, a derivative of his baptismal name, Maurus, which can be translated simultaneously as both 'Moor' and 'mulberry.' Ludovico adopted both meanings as his symbols, the Moors because he admired their culture and resourcefulness, and the mulberry because it was popularly assumed to be the wisest of all trees. These emblems are suggestive of the values he appreciated and cultivated." (Drees: 445)
Louise Elisabeth of Bourbon.
Madame Infanta:
Charlotte de Grancey?
Madame de Grancey
Mademoiselle de Grancey
Madame de Grancey
Mademoiselle de Grancey
Louise-Suzanne Breart (1886-1902)
the Cardinal Boss (It. il Cardinal Padrone): "The family of Pope Gregory XV (1621-23). The pope's brother Orazio Ludovisi was created duke of Fiano and Zagarole and general of the church. One of his sons Ludovico was 'the Cardinal Boss' ('il Cardinal Padrone') under his uncle and acquired enormous wealth for the Ludovisi family. . . ." (Williams: 224)
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