Diane Gabrielle Damas

Diane was also thought to have been a mistress of Louis XIV and a member of the Order of the Honey Bee.

[1] Growing up Diane was educated in the Abbaye-aux-Bois, A convent founded in Ognolles.

Diane was also mentioned occasionally in the Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon.

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon once wrote how Diane often outshone her sisters: On December 14, 1670, Diane married into the family of Mancini-Mazarini, via Philippe Jules Mancini, a nephew of Cardinal Mazarin.

Finally, on January 11, 1715, aged 58, Diane died peacefully in Paris, France.

Portrait by Jacob Ferdinand Voet c. 1670s
Portrait by Jacob Ferdinand Voet c. 1672