Madame de Ventadour
French noble (1654-1744) · France · On the map · Died at 90
Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt, Duchess of Ventadour was a French office holder of the French Royal Court. She was the governess of King Louis XV, great-grandson of King Louis XIV. She is credited with saving Louis XV from the ministrations of the royal doctors when he was ill as a child.
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Her only child, Anne Genevieve de Levis, Nicolas de Largillière.![Madame de Ventadour with Portraits of Louis XIV and his Heirs (1715-1720)London, Wallace Collection A composite portrait of the Bourbon succession, made in the period 1715-1720. Louis XIV, surrounded by his heirs, gestures to his great-grandson, Louis, Duke of Anjou (the future King Louis XV), symbolising the older man's approval of his young heir. Madame de Ventadour, the young duke's governess (and the only non-royal in the painting) holds in her hands her charge's reins. Her presence references her role in "saving" the dynasty in the measles epidemic of 1712.[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Louis_XIV_of_France_and_his_family_attributed_to_Nicolas_de_Largilli%C3%A8re.jpg/500px-Louis_XIV_of_France_and_his_family_attributed_to_Nicolas_de_Largilli%C3%A8re.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Madame de Ventadour with Portraits of Louis XIV and his Heirs (1715-1720)London, Wallace Collection A composite portrait of the Bourbon succession, made in the period 1715-1720. Louis XIV, surrounded by his heirs, gestures to his great-grandson, Louis, Duke of Anjou (the future King Louis XV), symbolising the older man's approval of his young heir. Madame de Ventadour, the young duke's governess (and the only non-royal in the painting) holds in her hands her charge's reins. Her presence references her role in "saving" the dynasty in the measles epidemic of 1712.[3]About this person
She was the Gouvernante des enfants royaux, Governess of the Children of France like her mother, granddaughter, granddaughter in law and great grand daughter.