A girl that is blowing bubbles from the title block of this page is the eldest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV - Sun King of France. She went down in history as a princesse who changed her name as well as titles 4 times including, and, in this context, limited to:
*Marie-Anne de Bourbon,
*mademoiselle de Blois,
*the princess of Conti,
*the Dowager Princess of Conti, Duchess of La Valliere.
In her family life she was more constant. Despite the fact that her marriage had turned out to be, as the historiens claim, "a bitter failure", she remained faithful to the memory of her only husband - Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti till the end of her life. In her youth he had сured her of smallpox, but contracting the disease himself he died a few days later. To sacrifice a life for a beautiful girl she had been depicted on the portrait made by Pierre Mignard? Was it really worth it? For a man deeply in love with his young wife that was a rhetorical question...