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MARIE LESZCZYNSKA (1703-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 714 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE LESZCZYNSKA (1703-1768)  , See also:queen See also:consort of See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Breslau on the 23rd of See also:June 1703, being the daughter of Stanislas Leszczynski (who in 1704 became See also:king of See also:Poland) and of See also:Catherine Opalinska . During a temporary See also:flight from See also:Warsaw the See also:child was lost, and eventually discovered in a See also:stable; on another occasion she was for safety's See also:sake hidden in an See also:oven . In his See also:exile Stanislas found his See also:chief See also:consolation in superintending the See also:education of his daughter . Madame de See also:Prie first suggested the See also:Polish princess as a See also:bride for See also:Louis See also:duke of See also:Bourbon, but she was soon betrothed not to him but to Louis XV., a step which was the outcome of the jealousies of the houses of See also:Conde and See also:Orleans, and was everywhere regarded as a mesalliance for the See also:French king . The See also:marriage took See also:place at See also:Fontainebleau on the 5th of See also:September 1725 . See also:Marie's one See also:attempt to interfere in politics, an effort to prevent the disgrace of the duke of Bourbon, was the beginning of her See also:husband's See also:alienation from her; and after the See also:birth of her seventh child See also:Louise, Marie was practically deserted by Louis, who openly avowed his liaison with Louise de See also:Neale, comtesse de See also:Mailly, who was replaced in turn by her sisters Pauline marquise de Vintimille, and Marie See also:Anne, duchess de See also:Chateauroux, and these by Madame de See also:Pompadour . In the meantime the queen saw her See also:father Stanislas established in See also:Lorraine, and the affectionate intimacy which she maintained with him was the chief consolation of her harassed See also:life . After a momentary reconciliation with Louis during his illness at See also:Metz in 1744, Marie shut herself up more closely with her own circle of See also:friends until her See also:death at See also:Versailles on the 24th of June 1768 . See V. See also:des Diguieres, Lettres inedites de la reine Marie Leczinska et de la duchesse de See also:Luynes au See also:President See also:Henault (1886); Marquise des Reaux, Le Roi Stanislas et Marie Leczinska (1895); P. de See also:Raynal, Le Mariage d'un roi (See also:Paris, 1887); H . Gauthier See also:Villars, Le Mariage de Louis X V. d'apres des documents nouveaux (1900) ; P. de Nolhac, La Reine Marie Leczinska (1900) and Louis X V.. et Marie Leczynska (1900); P . Boye, Lettres du roi Stanislas a Marie Leszczynska 1754–1766 (Paris and See also:Nancy, 1901); and C . Stryienski's See also:book on Marie Josephs de See also:Saxe (La See also:Mere des trois derniers Bourbons, Paris, 1902) .

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memoirs of President Henault and of the due de Luynes (ed . Dussieux and Soulie, 186o, &c.) .

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