1630 ANNE OF AUSTRIA King louis XIV Mum FIRST CHAMBER MAID autograph manuscript

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Dated 1630 and Signed "Marie Cheneau Dame fillandre femme de chambre de la Reine" First line
She will becaume Anne of austria First Chamber Maid in 1636
Anne of austria was Louis XIV mother and became regent queen when Louis XIV was child.
On her own memory, queen anne talk about "Fillandre" page 152
RARE autograph letter
Première femme de Chambre
('First Chamber Maid') was an office at the royal court of France.
The
Première femme de Chambre
was in charge of the preparing of clothes, cosmetics and other things in the queen's wardrobe for the dressing and undressing ceremony, and supervised the
femmes de chambre
('Chamber Maids'), who often reached a number of 16 per annum.
[1]
The dressing and undressing of the queen was in turn supervised by the
dame d'atour
. A Première femme de Chambre was not formally ranked as a
lady-in-waiting
but rather belonged to the chamber staff and as such (as formally a servant and
lady's maid
rather than a
lady-in-waiting
) did not need to be a member of the nobility.
The Première femme de Chambre was the only one of the women of the queen's household except the
dame d'honneur
to be in possession of the keys to the queen's rooms and in permanent access to the queen.
[2]
This gave her the opportunity to filter requests of meetings, audiences and messages to the queen and made her a
de facto
powerful person at court, where she was often flattered and bribed by the courtiers.
[3]
Anne of Austria
(
French
:
Anne d'Autriche
; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666), a
Spanish princess
and an
Austrian archduchess
of the
House of Habsburg
, was
queen of France
as the wife of
Louis XIII
, and regent of France during the minority of her son,
Louis XIV
, from 1643 to 1651. During her regency,
Cardinal Mazarin
served as France's chief minister. Accounts of French court life of her era emphasize her difficult marital relations with her husband, her closeness to her son Louis XIV, and her disapproval of her son's marital infidelity to her niece and daughter-in-law
Maria Theresa
.
[1]
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