Marie d'Orleans-Longueville was the daughter of Henry II, and married Henry, duke of Nemours when she was in her early 30s. She is best known for her involvement in court life in the 17th century, which she documented in a series of telling memoirs. Left childless after her husband's death, she spent the better part of her later years contesting her inheritance with her stepmother, Anne Genevieve de Bourbon-Conde.

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• Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and the Regency