[1] The next year, the King's brother, "Monsieur" (Philippe de France, duc d'Orléans), invited her to dance with him in a ballet at the Palais-Royal (he as a water god, she as a nymph).

In 1665, she danced again with the King in a ballet entitled The Birth of Venus, in which he portrayed Alexander and Mademoiselle de Sévigné Omphale.

In a madrigal, Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin [fr] made light of the situation: "And so the world is just too small / To find in it anyone at all / Who could be deemed worthy of her.

"[citation needed] When Françoise-Marguerite reached the relatively advanced age of 23 without a husband, her mother began to despair of ever marrying off her daughter.

[1] That same year, Louis XIV named Monsieur de Grignan the lieutenant general of the King in Provence.

Madame de Grignan, having become pregnant shortly after the wedding, was convinced by her mother to remain in Paris for the birth of her child.

[1] On 4 February 1671, Madame de Grignan left Paris to join her husband in Provence (the baby girl being shipped off to a convent for life.)