Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt

Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt (1644 – 24 January 1709), was a French courtier, known as the royal mistress of Louis XIV of France.

[1] She was known as La Grande Louve ('Grand She-Wolf') after her husband, who was the king's official Master of the Wolf Hunt.

She was originally a Protestant Huguenot, but converted to Catholicism together with her sister Marie-Élisabeth at the request of their uncle César Phoebus d'Albret, Count of Miossens, as this act would make it easier to arrange high status marriage for them.

Protected by her uncle, she was given the support of the king's brother, the Duke of Orleans, and appointed lady-in-waiting (fille d'honneur) to the queen, in 1661.

At her return, she was described by Saint-Simon as no longer beautiful and with difficulty in walking, but as still witty and charming.