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::''I had a private room that I wanted to enrich with four pierces of the most expert painters of our school. I alreadt had a [[Charles-André van Loo|van Loo]], a Boucher and a [[Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre|Pierre]]. You can judge that lacks a Natoire [...] Because the room was very small and secret, I did wanted nudity: the painting of Carle who represents the sleeping Antiope, and the painting of Boucher of a young woman lying on her stomach...''
Then it's Dominique-Guillaume Lebel, first valet of the King's chamber, who had the delicate and secret mission to negotiate the "virginity" of the girl and bring her back to Versailles. Thus the Marquis d'Argenson in his diary, dated on 1 April 1753<ref>''Journal et mémoires du marquis d’Argenson'', published by the Society for the History of France by E. J. B. Rathery, Paris 1859-1867,
After a miscarriage in mid-1753 (which apparently deeply affected the King),<ref>Comte de Fleury, "''Louis XV intime et les petites maîtresses''".</ref> Marie-Louise O'Murphy gave birth to Louis XV's [[illegitimate]] daughter, Agathe-Louise de Saint-Antoine de Saint-André, born in Paris on 20 May 1754 and baptized that same day at Saint-Paul.<ref>She married René Jean de la Tour du Pin, marquis de la Charce (26 July 1750 - 2 September 1781), at the Parisian Convent of the Visitation on 27 December 1773. After only nine months of marriage, on 6 September 1774, Agathe died at consecuence of a miscarriage.</ref>
===Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly===
After serving as a mistress to the King for just over two years, O'Murphy made a mistake that was common for many courtesans, that of trying to replace the official mistress. Around 1754, she unwisely tried to unseat the longtime royal favorite, [[Madame de Pompadour]]. This ill-judged move quickly resulted in O'Murphy's downfall at court. ▼
The name of ''Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly'' that she used in the second part of her life was invented for her first marriage.
▲After serving as a mistress to the King for
In November 1755 Marie-Louise O'Murphy was expelled at night her home at Parc-aux-Cerfs. Repudiated by the King, she was send far away from Versailles:
::''The King ordened her to leave at four in the morning to Paris: there she received the unexpected order to marry and she must to obey.''<ref>Argenson, vol. IX, p. 158, 28 December 1755.</ref>
She was hastly married on 25 November 1755, by contract signed before Mr. Patu, notary in [[Paris]], with Jacques Pelet de Beaufranchet, Seigneur d'Ayat (born 5 March 1728). The marriage was arranged by the inner circle of Madame de Pompadour. The [[Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes|Duke of Luynes]] and the Marquis de Valfons recorded that the [[Charles, Prince of Soubise|Prince of Soubise]] and the Marquis de Lugeac received the task to find a husband for Marie-Louise O'Murphy and arrange her marriage.<ref>Duc d'Albert de Luynes: ''Mémoires sur la cour de Louis XV 1735-1758'', edited by Louis d'Ussieux and Eudore Soulié, Paris Firmin Didot brothers, 1860-1865; and [[Camille Mathéi de Valfons|Marquis de Valfons]], ''Souvenirs'', presented and annotated edition by J. Hellegouarc'h, Paris 2003.</ref> The intended husband was chosen with great care: well born, with a good name for the former little mistress, young and good-looking. Beaufranchet, a good soldier and whithout fortune, obeyed the King's order.
Was in order to gave Marie-Louise O'Murphy a better status before her future in-laws, and to spare the aristocratis sensibilities of Beaufranchet that the young woman received the surname of Morphy de Boisfailly, and called a daughter of Daniel Morphy de Boisfailly, an Irish gentleman. As a dowry, she received the tune of 200,000 livres, a disguised donation of Louis XV, through the father Vanier, canon of the Royal and Collegiate Church of Saint-Paul de Lestrée at Saint-Denis; in addition, she was allowed to kept the clothes and jewelry received from the King during her stay at Parc-aux-Cerfs
The engagement took place the next day and the wedding was celebrated on 27 November 1755 in the parish of Saints Innocents, in the greatest secrecy. Beaufranchet's parents remained in the province and send their proxies to the wedding. By the side of Marie-Louise, no family member was present. Her mother was represented by a lawyer of the Parlement called Noël Duval, and none of her sisters was present, perhaps to spare the "mighty Seigneur d'Ayat" a painful confrontation with his humble and scandalous in-laws.
===Later Life===
Through the influence of [[Louis Desaix]], his cousin, he was in 1798 allowed a retiring pension ; he sat in the [[Corps Legislatif]] in 1803, and died at Paris 2 July 1812.</ref>{{sfn|Alger|1894}}
From her second marriage, Marie-Louise gave birth to a daughter, Marguerite Victoire Le Normant de Flaghac (5 January 1768 - aft. 1814), who, according to one theory, could be another illegitimate daughter of Louis XV.<ref>Camille Pascal, "''Le goût du roi : Louis XV et Marie-Louise O'Murphy''". This theory is supported by three facts: 1. The King gave Marie-Louise O'Murphy the sum of 350,000 livres between 1771-1772 (Marguerite, then a three-years-old child, surpassed the dangerous first year of infancy, and Louis XV probably wanted to protect the mother of his child), 2. When Marguerite married in 1786 all the royal family was present and signed the marriage contract, and 3. After the Bourbon Restoration, King Charles X gave Marguerite an "annual indemnity" from his own treasure.</ref>
François Le Normant died on 24 April 1783. She was accorded a pension of
During the [[Reign of Terror]] Marie-Louise was imprisoned as a 'suspect,' under the name of O'Murphy, at Sainte-Pelagie and at the English Benedictine convent in Paris. After her release she married on 19 June 1795 with Louis Philippe Dumont (17 November 1765 - 11 June 1853), a moderate [[Member of parliament|MP]] for [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] into the [[National Convention]] and twenty-eight years younger than her; however, this union quickly failed, and after almost three years, they divorced on 16 March 1798. She never married again.
▲François Le Normant died on 24 April 1783. She was accorded a pension of twelve thousand francs. {{sfn|Alger|1894}}
After the [[Bourbon Restoration]], she received from King [[Charles X of France|Charles X]] a rent of 2,000 francs from his own treasure, and further 3,000 francs from the [[Civil List]].
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