Louise-Marie de Léprouve

Louise-Marie de Léprouve , more known like countess of Lanneau , is a lady of French court born the February 24th 1521 in the Beauce and dead the October 12th 1574 with Paris.

Biography

Girl of François-Henri, baron de Léprouve, and count of Châteaudun, and Maria-Teresa von Donnerstadt, small-niece of the duke Albert IV of Bavaria, it grows in the records of the family castle without any conscience of the outside world.

Introduced at the court after the death of her husband the count de Lanneau, it took as Fabienne first name, and pointed out himself at the age of blackjack years by the future Henri II and begins with him a tumultuous and secret connection. In the shade of its large rival Diane of Poitiers, it will not mark the history as much that this one. The king will however give him two children ever legitimated: Marie-Bernadette and Marie-Pauline.

Very interested by the study of the medicinal plants and in particular of the poisons, impassioned alchemy, it would have claimed in its memories ever published ( Souvenir one woman at the court of France ) to have found the formula of the Philosopher's stone according to work of Nicolas Flamel. Very quickly forsaken by the king and afflicted by his death in 1559, it settled in a convent of bénédictines in province as from 1561. Returned with Paris in 1572, one found his corpse on a quay of the Seine on October 13rd 1574, the causes of its death were never elucidated (revenge, accident, suicide…).

She was suspected a long time in strange death of a lady's companion of Diane of Poitiers. She was rehabilitated by Louis XIV in 1671 under the influence of Louise of Vallière. The revolutionary tribunal recognized it again guilty poisoning and its case was never re-examined.

See too

List of the mistresses of the kings de France

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