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Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska (Marie-Catherine Leszczynska), Queen consort of France 1725-1768; a Polish princess 1704-9, 1733-36.
Maria died in 1768, six years before her husband.
Maria is a major character in the novel The Royal Merry-Go-Round, the story of Louis XV's adventurous love life.
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It was expected that Louis would marry his cousin, the daughter of King Philip V of Spain, but this marriage was cancelled by the duke in 1725 so that Louis could marry Maria Leszczynska, the daughter of Stanislas, former king of Poland.
Maria was already an adult woman at the time of the marriage, while the Infanta was still a young girl.
Maria knew that she needed the support of the liberals to oppose Don Carlos so she granted a constitution in 1834.
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 House of Bourbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was expected that Louis would marry his cousin, the daughter of King Philip V of Spain, but this marriage was cancelled by the duke in 1725 so that Louis could marry Maria Leszczynska, the daughter of Stanislas, former king of Poland.
Maria was already an adult woman at the time of the marriage, while the Infanta was still a young girl.
Maria knew that she needed the support of the liberals to oppose Don Carlos so she granted a constitution in 1834.
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 The Damon and Taber Family Connections - Person Page 10971
Reference=71QJ-RQ Princess Maria Szarlotta Leszczynska (of Poland) was born on 23 June 1703 of, Poznan, Poland.
Princess Maria Szarlotta Leszczynska (of Poland) married King Louis XV 'Le Bien-aimbe' (of France), son of Louis (of Burgundy) and Princess Maria Adelaida (of Sardinia), on 4 September 1725 in, Seine-Et-Marne, France.
Princess Maria Szarlotta Leszczynska (of Poland) died on 24 June 1768 in Versailles,, France, at age 65.
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 Madame de Pompadour
Maria Rafaela of Spain, the Dauphin of France
Maria Teresa, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
The King was obliged to marry Maria Lezcynska and the Royal Wedding was celebrated the 5 September 1725.
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 The Splendors of Versailles--Teachers' Guide Supplement
Louis’ choice for a bride was frowned upon by many at the court, but she was healthy, and expected to be quite fertile, and thus able to give Louis an heir.
Queen Maria could never be the friend and companion that Louis craved, but she fulfilled his expectations by presenting him with ten children in as many years.
Maria’s amateur efforts as a painter and musician failed to arouse the King’s interest, and the serious literature she enjoyed meant nothing to a man who cared nothing for books.
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 Louis XV - LoveToKnow 1911
His first minister was the incapable duke of Bourbon, who in 1725 procured the repudiation of the Spanish princess, to whom the king had been betrothed, and his marriage to Maria Leszczynska, daughter of the exiled king of Poland, then resident in Alsace.
In 1726 the duke of Bourbon was displaced by the king's tutor, Bishop (afterwards Cardinal) Fleury, who exercised almost absolute power, for the king took little interest in affairs of state.
In 1740 the war of the Austrian Succession broke out and France drifted into it as an ally of Frederick of Prussia and the enemy of England, and of Maria Theresa of Austria.
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 Maria Leszczyńska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria Carolina Sophia Felicitas Leszczyńska (1703–1768) was a queen consort of France and a Polish princess.
According to Polski Słownik Biograficzny her name was Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska h.
Though presumed to be not too clever, Maria Leszczyńska was an author of at least a few quips.
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The king attained his legal majority at the age of thirteen, shortly before the death of the duke of Orleans.
His first minister was the incapable duke of Bourbon, who in 1725 procured the repudiation of the Spanish princess, to whom the king had been betrothed, and his marriage to Maria Leszczynska, daughter of the exiled king of Poland, then resident in Alsace.
In 1726 the duke of Bourbon was displaced by the king's tutor, Bishop (afterwards Cardinal) Fleury, who exercised almost absolute power, for the king took little interest in affairs of state.
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 Daughters of Queen Ysabel II of Spain (1830-1904)
Daughters of Queen Ysabel II of Spain (1830-1904)
Maria de la Paz, Princess Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (1862-)
Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1717-1780)
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 Explore - Part 27
The historical town of Rydzyna was the seat of the famous Polish noble family of Leszczynski in the 17th-18th centuries.
Maria Leszczynska became a wife of King Louis XV of France.
North from Kalisz (20 km.) is the village of Goluchow with a large landscape park and a beautiful Renaissance castle containing a valuable collection of art, currently a branch of the Poznan National Museum.
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 History of Art: Baroque and Rococo - Francesco Guardi
The first years of his marriage had been happy ones and six daughters and a son survived the union with Maria, who was deeply humiliated by her husband's infidelity.
The first three royal mistresses to be established successively at Court from 1738 spent their time giving parties at the king's expense and behaving in a way that aroused public indignation.
When she heard one day that the queen had lost a considerable sum at gambling but was afraid to tell her husband what had happened, Madame de Pompadour asked the king for the privilege of paying the queen's debts of honour herself.
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 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
Married firstly in 1660 at St-Jean-de-Luz Princess Maria Teresa of Spain (*1638 Madrid,†1683 Versailles).
Married in 1725 at Fontainebleau Princess Maria Leszczynska of Poland (*1703 Poznan, Poland,†1768 Versailles).
Married in 1773 at Versailles Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy (*1756 Turin,†1805 Graz).
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 Ancestors and Family of Maria of Poland Leczinska
Polish MARIA KAROLINA LESZCZYNSKA queen consort of King Louis XV of France (ruled 1715-74).
Although she had no direct influence on French politics, her Polish dynastic connections involved France in a European conflict that resulted in the eventual annexation of Lorraine by France.
Maria married Louis XV of France de Bourbon, son of Louis of Burgundy de Bourbon and Marie Adelaide de Savoie, on 4 Sep 1725.
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 Daughters of Miguel I, King of Portugal, Duke of Braganca (1802-1866)
Maria Teresa, Archduchess Karl Ludwig of Austria (1855-1944),
Maria das Neves, Infanta Alfonso Carlos (I) of Spain, Duchess of San Jaime (1852-1941),
Maria das Neves, Infanta Alfonso Carlos (I) of
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 Portrait of Maria Leszczynska (1703-68) in Daily Dress Posters by Jean-Marc Nattier at AllPosters.com
Portrait of Maria Leszczynska (1703-68) in Daily Dress by Jean-Marc Nattier
The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink on archival paper, resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display.
Portrait of Maria Leszczynska (1703-68) in Daily Dress
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 Louis-Henri I - English
His aim, however, was to prevent the crown from passing to the Orléans branch of the royal family in the event of the death of the king Louis X whose health was not very good.
Since the Spanish infanta Maria-Anna, with whom Louis XV was engaged since 1721, was too young to produce a royal heir, Condé cancelled that engagement and managed to get the King married to Maria Leszczynska, daughter of a dethroned Polish king.
This caused the hostility of Spain and led to an alliance between Spain and Austria.
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 Amadeus - The Maestro - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
Mozart was born on 27 January 1756, at 8 p.m to his parents, Johann Georg Leopold Mozart ('Leopold') and Anna Maria Mozart (nee Pertl) in Salzburg (now in present day Austria, but at the time an independent city-state, which was an ecclesiastical principality, meaning that it was governed by a prince-archbishop).
The Mozarts played in Paris for Queen Maria Leszczynska and Louis XV and in fact were honoured with an invitation to the court dinner on New Year's Day, 1763.
The family was further honoured, and gained great publicity, by being asked to stand by the royal table, where Maria conversed with Amadeus and fed him from her plate (sounds a little like a puppy, doesn't it).
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 Maria (1919) Movie film locations - 1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from our ...
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the WereYRabbit (2005)
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Dome of Il Duomo (Santa Maria Del Flore), Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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 The French Royal Family: A Genealogy
Charles II (1254-1309), prince of Salerno: Anjou overall a bend (N), 1285 king of Naples and Jerusalem: perpale Anjou and Jerusalem
Maria (d.1323) dau.of King Stephen V of Hungary
Maria (1370-95), queen of Hungary, Dalmatia and Croatia
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 HOASM: Giuseppe Porsile [Borsilli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
According to Otto Biba, Porsile arrived in Vienna in the same year and began to give singing lessons to the dowager Empress Wilhelmina Amalia, for whose birthday and nameday he wrote at least three dramatic works.
The elaborate birthday cantata of 1717 was sung for the imperial family by the dowager empress's daughters, the Archduchesses Maria Josepha and Maria Amalia.
His initial annual salary of 200 ducats was not confirmed until 1717, and while being promised a more substantial appointment he served as /attuario di camera/.
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 Portrait of Madame Maria Leszczynska (1703-68) 1748 Giclee Print by Jean-Marc Nattier at AllPosters.com
Portrait of Madame Maria Leszczynska (1703-68) 1748 Giclee Print by Jean-Marc Nattier at AllPosters.com
Portrait of Madame Maria Leszczynska (1703-68) 1748 by Jean-Marc Nattier
This art print was created using a sophisticated digital printer.
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 The Mozart Project: Biography
With his father, Leopold, and sister, Maria Anna, Mozart visits Munich for three weeks.
[18] Mozart departs Salzburg for Vienna with Leopold and Maria Anna.
[13] In Vienna, the Mozarts are received by Maria Theresa and her consort, Francis I, at Schönbrunn.
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 Britannica India: Biographies
She was soon replaced by Madame d'Étioles, who obtained a legal separation from her husband and was created marquise de Pompadour.
She was lodged in a few rooms under the roof; she set out to make herself agreeable to all those who counted for anything in the palace, beginning with Queen Marie (Maria Leszczynska).
Marie could hardly have been a more unsuitable wife for the handsome, artistic, sensual, and pleasure-loving Louis XV.
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 Louis XV - Project SYW
In 1725, after the repudiation of his betrothal with a Spanish princess, Louis XV married Maria Leszczynska, daughter of the exiled king Stanislaw I of Poland, then resident in Alsace.
Up to this point, Louis XV's reign had been prosperous but from this time on it is a record of declining national strength.
Meanwhile, Frederick II of Prussia to the opportunity to invade Silesia which his dynasty had claimed since several years.
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 Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies
Dr. Lescott-Leszczynski's concerns about ethnic conflicts and the escalation of fundamentalist extremism and hate speech led her to become a founding board member of UNR's Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies.
A member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, she feels that her HGPS involvement helps her to carry on the legacy of her husband's aunt, Maria Leszczynska Eckhardt, a Righteous Gentile who saved the life of a Jewish girl in Tarnopol during W.W.II.
As an Editor in the College Departments of Harcourt Brace and Harper and Row, Dr. Lescott-Leszczynski specialized in editing and rewriting textbooks and teaching materials until she and her husband left the United States to work and travel in Europe for several years.
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 The Mozart Project: Biography: 1761-1765
well, it was all the same to him, and to Anna Maria and the children too.
Never in their wildest dreams did any of them imagine that there would ever be a time when they would not be together.
Leopold and Anna Maria in long conversations with their daughter prepared her to resign herself to the will of God and sought to convince her "of the vanity of this world and the happy death of children." Her condition was indeed serious: She apparently had contracted typhoid fever.
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 Marie Leszczynska
Executive summary: Queen Consort of Louis XV Marie Leszczynska, queen consort of France, was born at Breslau on the 23rd of June 1703, being the daughter of Stanislas Leszczynski (who in 1704 became king of Poland) and of Catherine Opalinska.
During a temporary flight from Warsaw the child was lost, and eventually discovered in a stable; on another occasion she was for safety's sake hidden in an oven.
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 Arc11
In 1726 the duke of Bourboa was displaced by the king's tutor, Bishop (afterwards Cardinal) Fleury, who exercised almost absolute power, for the king took little interest in affairs of state.
On Fleury's death in 1743 no one took his place, and the King professed to adopt the example of Louis XIV.
His father's death in 1765 made him heir to the throne, and in 1770 he was married to Marie Antoinette, daughter of the empress Maria Theresa.
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 Paris by pastries | | The Australian
FOR 270 years, Stohrer has offered its delicacies on this lively, historic, cobble-stoned street.
A marker outside the shop explains that in 1725, when Louis XV married Maria Leszczynska, daughter of Poland's Stanislaw I, she brought her father's pastry chef with her to Versailles.
In 1730, the chef moved to Paris to open what is now the city's oldest patisserie.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20841574-27978,00.html   (1076 words)

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