Was louis XIV a faithful husband?
After her, Madame de Montespan became Louis XIV’s mistress and he then took on an unofficial second wife: Madame de Maintenon. Maria Theresa tolerated this, Marie-Thérèse was also too pious and too adoring of her husband to openly resent the position in which she was placed by his avowed infidelities. Moreover, in spite of his blatant unfaithfulness, he ensured that she was treated with the utmost respect befitting her position as Queen and his wife and did indeed reprimand Mme de Montespan when she crossed the line. Eventually, the Queen acted with dignity and did not create scenes at Court.
