Mary and her husband, William of Orange.
Marie, Duchesse of Guise, died without heirs in 1688. In 1700, the Hotel de Guise passed to the Prince of Soubise, in token of Louis XIV’s gratitude for the illicit favors of the Prince’s wife.
According to St. Simone, orders for the Minister of War Francois Michel Le Tellier de Louvois’s arrest and permanent imprisonment in the Bastille were issued on July 16, 1691. On that day, before he could be arrested, Louvois died suddenly at court, of apoplexy.
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