Chi uscì con Luigi XV di Francia?

Luigi XV di Borbone, detto il Beneamato (Versailles, 15 febbraio 1710 – Versailles, 10 maggio 1774), è stato re di Francia dal 1715 fino alla sua morte. Ereditato il trono dal bisnonno Luigi XIV di Francia all'età di appena cinque anni, trascorse i primi anni della sua vita in relativa tranquillità sotto l'attenta guida di diversi precettori, che gli fornirono una vasta cultura, mentre il potere effettivo venne delegato ad alcuni reggenti. Al compimento della maggiore età, Luigi XV affidò il governo al cardinale Fleury, suo vecchio precettore.

All'inizio del regno ottenne grandi consensi da parte del popolo, che arrivò a tributargli l'appellativo di "Beneamato". Con il passare degli anni però la sua debolezza nel prendere decisioni e l'intrigante e costante presenza delle sue amanti ne fecero crollare la popolarità, tanto che alla sua morte per le vie di Parigi impazzarono i festeggiamenti, com'era accaduto anche per Luigi XIV, e il suo funerale dovette essere celebrato di nascosto e nottetempo per evitare, com'era capitato con il suo predecessore, che il feretro venisse sottoposto al pubblico dileggio.

Sotto il suo regno la Francia ottenne tuttavia grandi successi militari all'interno del continente europeo, come la conquista del ducato di Lorena, ma perse il controllo su gran parte del proprio impero coloniale a favore della Gran Bretagna.

Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (26 December 1746 – 5 July 1779), known as Madame de Bonneval, was a mistress to King Louis XV of France from 1762 to 1765. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (French pronunciation: [maʁi an də maji nɛl]; 5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become mistresses of King Louis XV of France. Marie Anne was the King's mistress from 1742 until 1744.

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marchesa di Pompadour, detta Reinette ("reginetta"), meglio nota come Madame de Pompadour (Parigi, 29 dicembre 1721 – Versailles, 15 aprile 1764), è stata la più celebre favorita del re Luigi XV e la donna francese più potente del XVIII secolo. Difese con tutte le sue forze i principi della monarchia assoluta ma, da simpatizzante dell'illuminismo, tentò con la sua influenza di spingere la Francia verso il dispotismo illuminato.

Nacque nel 1721 da Luise Madeleine de La Motte, una ricca ereditiera borghese, e da François Poisson, benché la paternità della bambina non gli sia attribuita. La ragazza ricevette una buona educazione in convento e anche nei salotti parigini frequentati da artisti, letterati e filosofi.

Grazie alle sue amicizie, riuscì a partecipare al ballo organizzato per festeggiare le nozze del Delfino e in quell'occasione conobbe Luigi XV di Francia, che ne fece la sua amante. Dopo averle conferito il titolo di Marchesa di Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette fu riconosciuta come maîtresse-en-titre, ovverosia amante ufficiale.

Madame de Pompadour ebbe notevole influenza sulle arti, sulla moda, sul teatro e sulla musica, dettando lo stile della prima metà del Settecento; a livello filosofico fu sostenitrice delle idee dell'illuminismo, essendo mecenate degli enciclopedisti, facendo in modo che l'Encyclopédie continuasse a essere stampata.

Ebbe anche notevole importanza a livello politico, riuscendo a ottenere cariche per amici e familiari. A lei si deve la riuscita del rovesciamento delle alleanze, con il quale la Francia si unì al Sacro Romano Impero, unione che sarebbe stata suggellata nel 1770 dal matrimonio del Delfino Luigi Augusto con l'arciduchessa Maria Antonietta d'Austria. Morì nel 1764, prima di veder realizzati i frutti del suo operato.

Lucie-Madeleine d’Estaing (1743–1826), was a French noblewoman, mistress to Louis XV from 1760 to 1763. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

Françoise de Chalus (bap. Chalus, 24 February 1734 - Paris, 7 July 1821), was a French noblewoman and courtier. She was the mother of Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara, possibly by King Louis XV. She was the lady-in-waiting of Louise Élisabeth of France in 1749–59, and the influential favorite lady-in-waiting of Princess Adélaïde of France in 1764–1800.

Marie Anne de Coislin (1732-1817), was a French aristocrat, known as the mistress to King Louis XV in 1755. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

She was the daughter of the marquis Louis de Mailly (1696-1767) and the lady-in-waiting Anne Françoise Elisabeth Arbaleste de Melun and married in 1750 to the duke Charles Georges René du Cambout de Coislin (d. 1771), but they separated early on and she moved back with her parents.

In 1755, Louis François, Prince of Conti launched her as his candidate to replace Madame de Pompadour as official mistress of the king. She was the first serious candidate to be put up against Madame de Pompadour since Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré, and she was also to be the last. She did succeed to be the secret lover of the king, which attracted some attention at court. She became known as l'altière Vasthi. Ultimately, however, the plot failed, and she was ousted from court by Madame de Pompadour. After this, there was no more serious rival to replace Madame de Pompadour, and the king mainly settled with his unofficial lovers at the Parc-aux-Cerfs.

Marie Anne de Coislin had affairs with the Prince de Conti and the count de Coigny, and was claimed to have had affairs with Christian VI of Denmark-Norway, Gustav III of Sweden and Peter III of Russia. It is unknown if these rumours where true, but Christian VI and Gustav III did visit her during their visits to Paris, which attracted attention at the time.

She did not leave France during the French Revolution, but lived as a servant in Rouen, Brittany, and Vendée during the Reign of Terror. After the fall of Robespierre, she resumed her former life and property. She remarried in 1793 to Louis-Marie duc de Mailly (d. 1795).

Irène du Buisson de Longpré (c. 1720–1767), was a French noblewoman, mistress to King Louis XV. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet (1731 – 1800) was a petite maîtresse of King Louis XV of France.

Boisselet was born to Pierre Sulpice Boisselet and Marie Thérèse Carouailles. Her father was an employee of the king's kitchen staff, with the title 'Contrôleur de la Bouche du Roi et chef du gobelet de Mme la Dauphine'. Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet was described as a beauty, and she agreed to become the lover of the king. The affair was not an official one; she was recruited to be a petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress) of the king in Parc-aux-Cerfs. She had one child with the king, Charles Louis Cadet de Gassicourt (1769–1821).

In 1771, she married the chemist Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, who adopted her son. According to Paul Thiébault, Louis XV benefitted the career of Cadet de Gassicourt in the Royal Academy because of his marriage to his former lover.

Louise Julie de Mailly, comtesse de Mailly (1710 – Parigi, 1751), fu la maggiore delle cinque famose sorelle de Nesle, quattro di cui divennero amanti di Re Luigi XV di Francia.

Diane Adélaïde de Mailly, duchessa di Lauraguais (Parigi, 11 febbraio 1713 – Parigi, 30 novembre 1769), è stata un'amante di Luigi XV.

Marguerite-Catherine Haynault (1736–1823) was a French noblewoman, mistress to Louis XV from 1759 to 1762. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

She was born in Paris as the daughter of the tobacco merchant Jean-Baptiste Haynault and Catherine Coupris de La Salle. In 1759, she was recruited to be a petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress) of the king in Parc-aux-Cerfs by Dominique Guillaume Lebel.

She served as the king's lover with Lucie-Madeleine d'Estaing, who lived in the Parc-aux-Cerfs at the same time and alternated with her, one replacing the other in the king's bed during their pregnancies; Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie was also housed there, while Anne Couppier de Romans had refused and was given her own house. She had two daughters with the king: Agnès-Louise de Montreuil (born 1760) and Anne-Louise de La Réale (born 1762), who were officially registered with two officers as fathers. Her daughters were both taken from her, raised in the convent school Chaillot, and given noble status, dowries and arranged marriages with noblemen as adults.

The king discontinued their relationship in 1762, and she was awarded a pension. In 1766, she married Blaise Arod, Marquis de Montmelas-Saint-Sorlin (d. 1815).

She left France during the French Revolution and lived abroad during the Reign of Terror. After the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, she returned to France, applied to be removed from the list of emigres and reclaimed her property.

Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, née à Paris en 1712 et morte le 9 septembre 1741, par son mariage comtesse de Vintimille (1739), est une favorite de Louis XV.

Marie Catherine Éléonore Bénard (Catherine Éléonore Bernard; 1740 – 23 February 1769) was a French lady-in-waiting and alleged petite maîtresse to King Louis XV in 1768-69.

Marie-Louise O'Murphy (Rouen, 21 ottobre 1737 – Parigi, 11 dicembre 1814) è stata una cantante francese.

Anne Couppier de Romans (1737 –1808) was a petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress) of King Louis XV of France from 1760 to 1765.

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (French: [baʁi]; 19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She is also known as "Mademoiselle Vaubernier" ([vobɛʁnje]).

In 1768, when the king wished to make Jeanne maîtresse-en-titre, etiquette required her to be the wife of a high courtier, so she was hastily married on 1 September 1768 to Comte Guillaume du Barry. The wedding ceremony was accompanied by a false birth certificate created by Jean-Baptiste du Barry, the comte's older brother. The certificate made Jeanne appear younger by three years and obscured her poor background. Henceforth, she was recognised as the king's official paramour.

Her arrival at the French royal court scandalised some, because she had been a courtesan and came from humble beginnings. She was shunned by many including Marie Antoinette, whose contempt for Jeanne caused alarm and dissension at court. On New Year's Day 1772, Marie Antoinette deigned to speak to Jeanne; her remark, "There are many people at Versailles today", was enough to take the edge off the dispute, though many still disapproved of Jeanne.

Decades later, during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, Jeanne was imprisoned over accusations of treason by her servant Zamor. She was executed by guillotine on 8 December 1793. Her body was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery. The fabulous gems which she had smuggled to London were sold at auction in 1795.