The true story of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, the mother of King Louis XV who was never queen

2024-02-09T16:43:04.746Z

Highlights: Stéphane Bern tells the story of a duchess who should have become queen: the Duchess of Burgundy who became Dauphine of France but did not have time to reign. Or the true story of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, the mother of King Louis XV who was never queen. What was the influence of this young girl at the court of Versailles? What was his relationship with Louis XIV? How did her contemporaries describe her?

Stéphane Bern tells the story of a duchess who should have become queen: the Duchess of Burgundy who became Dauphine of France but did not have time to reign. Or the true story of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, the mother of King Louis XV who was never queen... What was the influence of this young girl at the court of Versailles? What was his relationship with Louis XIV? How did her contemporaries describe her? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Elisabetta Lurgo, historian, associate researcher at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Strasbourg and author of the biography "Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie" (Perrin)