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Princess Maria Ludwika Jablonowska
(1711-1773)
Born 1711
Died 20 December 1773
Married 2 October 1730
Anne Charles Frederique de La Tremouille, Prince de Talmont,
Comte de Taillebourg,
son of Frederique Guillaume de La Tremouille, Prince de Talmond
and Elizabeth Anne Antoinette de Bullion
Born circa 1711
Died 20 November 1759 Paris
Affaire with (a) Stanislas Leszczynski, King of Poland 1704-1709,
1733, Duke of Lorraine,
son of Rafal Leszczynski, Duke and Count of Lesno, Palatin of Lenezin
and Anna Katarzyna Jablonowska
Born 20 October 1677 Lw¢w
Died 23 February 1766 Lun‚ville
Affaire with (b) Charles Edward Stuart, "the Young Pretender",
son of James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales "the Old Pretender"
and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska
Born 31 December 1720 Rome
Died 31 January 1788 Rome
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The Polish King Johan Sobieski was her great-aunt's second husband.
She was also a cousin to the wife of King Louis XV of France as well as
of the wife of 'the Old Pretender'.
Known for her charm, beauty and wit, at the age of thirty she married
Anne Charles Frederique de La Tremouille, Prince de Talmond, and a year
later a son was born. Her husband, according to the Marquis d'Argenson,
was interested in both good-looking young men and religious exercises.
According to Madame du Deffand, Marie Louise Jablonowska, now the Princesse
de Talmond, "was feared and disliked by all who live in her society. Yet
she has truth, courage and honesty. She pleases, she provokes, we love
and hate her, seek her and avoid her."
In the summer of 1748, aged forty-seven, she became the mistress of
her twenty-years younger cousin, Charles Edward Stuart, 'the Young Pretender'.
This must have been of great satisfaction to her as she had supplanted
another cousin half her age in Charles's affections. According to Marquis
d'Argenson, she governed Charles "with fury and
folly". If the Princesse de Talmond was cold and shrewd in her judgments
of the world, she was also good company and able to entertain a man so
much younger. Also they were both vain, ambitious and daring.
However, France was close to signing a peace treaty which meant acknowledging
the Hanoverian kings and exiling the Stuart Pretender from France.
In October 1748 Charles received a formal note from King Louis XV requesting
him to leave France immediately. Charles delighted in annoying and embarrassing
the French and refused to move from
Paris. He rented a new house where he entertained Madame de Talmond
who, despite her husband's warnings, dined with Charles every night. Despite
being forewarned that something was going to happen, on 11 December 1748
Charles went to the opera where he was apprehended by the police, unceremoniously
tied up and bundled into a carriage, and then taken to Vincennes. The manner
of the arrest caused an outrage and Charles was released on the condition
that he would leave France. In disguise he went to the papal city of Avignon.
Avignon, though a pleasant city, was nothing like Paris and, even though
Madame de Talmond seems to have joined him there, he asked the Landgrave
of Hesse's daughter to marry him. However, this lady, living in Rome, was
already married. Then the English protested to the pope about his presence
in Avignon and so he left on 28 February 1749.
In September 1750 Charles went secretly to London hoping to start an
uprising which would place him on the English throne. King George II was
informed of his presence but maintained that: "When he is tired of England
he will go abroad again" and did nothing. However, while in London Charles
became a Protestant, although only temporarily. At the
end of September he returned to Paris. By this time his relations with
Madame de Talmond had become strained.
In January 1746 while ill at Bannockburn, Charles had been nursed by
Clementina Walkinshaw, during which time they may have become lovers. In
1752 Clementina was living in France and, even though many Jacobites objected,
she became his mistress and produced a daughter in 1753.
In 1765 Charles, in correspondence with his brother, was told that
Madame de Talmond was in Rome and: "She always speaks of your Royal Highness
with the greatest regard and respect, and really seems to be sincerely
attached to you."
In April 1766, Charles, then living in Rome, wrote courteously and
affectionately to Madame de Talmond who, now old and devout, lived in Paris.
By this time Charles had broken with Clementina Walkinshaw.
In 1772, aged fifty-one, he married Princess Louisa zu Stolberg and
at first was so happy that he conveyed his happiness not only to Madame
de Talmond but also to earlier mistresses. However, by the end of 1773
Charles again resorted to 'the nasty bottle' while Madame de Talmond died
that December.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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