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MARIE THERESE (1638-1683)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 715 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE THERESE (1638-1683) , See also:queen See also:consort of See also:France, was See also:born on the loth of See also:September 1638 at the Escurial, being the daughter of See also:Philip IV. of See also:Spain and See also:Elizabeth of France. By pretending to seek a See also:bride for his See also:master in See also:Margaret of See also:Savoy, See also:Mazarin had induced the See also:king of Spain to make proposals for the See also:marriage of his daughter with See also:Louis XIV., and the treaty of the See also:Pyrenees in 1659 stipulated for her marriage with the See also:French king, Marie renouncing any claim to the See also:Spanish See also:succession. As the treaty, however, hinged on the See also:payment of her See also:dowry, which was practically impossible for Spain, Mazarin could evade the other terms of the See also:contract. Marie Therese was married in See also:June 166o, when Philip IV. with his whole See also:court accompanied the bride to the Isle of Pheasants in the Bidassoa, where she was met by Louis. The new queen's amiability and her undoubted virtues failed to secure her See also:husband's regard and See also:affection. She saw herself neglected in turn for See also:Louise de la Valliere, Mme. de See also:Montespan and others; but Marie Therese was too pious and too humble openly to resent the position in which shewas placed by the king's avowed infidelities. With the growing See also:influence of Madame de See also:Maintenon over his mind and affections he bestowed more See also:attention on his wife, which she repaid by lavishing kindness on the See also:mistress. She had no See also:part in See also:political affairs except in 1672, when she acted as See also:regent during Louis XIV.'s See also:campaign in See also:Holland. She died on the 30th of See also:July 1683 at See also:Versailles, not without suspicion of foul See also:play on the part of her doctors. Of her six See also:children only one survived her, the dauphin Louis, who died in 1711. See the 'funeral oration of See also:Bossuet (See also:Paris, 1684), E. Ducere, Le Mariage de Louis XIV. d'apres See also:les contemporains et See also:des documents inedits (See also:Bayonne, 1905) ; Dr Cabanes, Les Morts mysterieuses de l'histoire (1900), and the literature dealing with her rivals Louise de la Valliere, Madame de Montespan and Madame de Maintenon.

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