"Princess Elisabeth Charlotte (German: Prinzessin Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz; nicknamed "Lieselotte", 27 May 1652 – 8 December 1722) was a German princess and, as Madame, the ...
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second wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV of France, and mother of France´s ruler during the Regency. Louis invoked her hereditary claim to the Palatinate as pretext to launch the Nine Years´ War in 1688. Her vast, frank correspondence provides a detailed account of the personalities and activities at the court of her brother-in-law, Louis XIV, for half a century, from the date of her marriage in 1672." - (en.wikipedia.org 14.07.2020)
