id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7681 Maîtresse-en-titre - Wikipedia .html text/html 937 143 70 Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. The maîtresse-en-titre (French: [mɛtʁɛs ɑ̃ titʁ]) was the chief Royal mistress of the king of France.[1] The title came into use during the reign of Henry IV and continued through the reign of Louis XV. From the reign of Louis XIV, the term has been applied, both in translation ("official mistress") and in the original French, to refer to the main mistress of any monarch or prominent man when his relationship with her is not clandestine, e.g. Vibeke Kruse, Nell Gwynn, Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Lola Montez, Magda Lupescu. 1 French royal mistresses with the position of Maîtresse-en-titre French royal mistresses with the position of Maîtresse-en-titre[edit] While the King may have many mistresses, there were normally only one official Maîtresse-en-titre. Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux (1717–1744) Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (better known as Madame de Pompadour) (1721–1764), marquise de Pompadour Romantic relationship events All articles needing additional references ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7681.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7681.txt