Catherine Bellier

She became première femme de Chambre to the French Queen, Anne of Austria, mother of King Louis XIV.

In 1652, Queen Anne was worried about the possibility of her teenaged son, Louis XIV, being plagued by the same type of "sexual dysfunction" that his father seemed to have suffered from.

She encouraged Bellier to deflower the 15 year old king in order to ensure that he was capable of producing heirs.

By the time her husband died in 1674, she was destitute and was forced to live as a renter in the Hôtel de Beauvais.

[3] King Louis XIV funded the Hôtel de Beauvais in the Marais in Paris as a reward to Bellier.