Correspondance Complète de Madame Duchesse d'Orléans, Née Princesse Palatine, Mère Du Régent; Volume 1

by Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz

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428 pages, Paperback

Published July 28, 2018

About the author

Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans, also known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, was a German princess and the second wife of Philippe de France, younger brother of Louis XIV of France. Her vast correspondence provides a detailed account of the personalities and activities at the court of her brother-in-law, Louis XIV.

Princess Elisabeth Charlotte was the mother of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, France's ruler during the Regency. Her sometimes very blunt descriptions of French court life is today one of the best-known German-language texts of the Baroque period.

Although she had only two surviving children, she not only became the ancestress of the House of Orléans, which came to the French throne with Louis Philippe I, the so-called "Citizen King" from 1830 to 1848, but also became the ancestress of numerous European royal families, so she was also called the "Grandmother of Europe". Through her daughter she was the grandmother of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, the husband of Maria Theresa, and great-grandmother of Joseph II and Leopold II (both Holy Roman Emperors) and Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.