PORTRAIT OF LOUIS XIV (1638-1715) AND HIS BROTHER PHILIP DUKE OF ORLEANS (1640-1701), c. 1642 Charles Beaubrun (1604-1692), French school. Anne of Austria had to sacrifice her strong maternal instincts for court etiquette, letting her children live in separate apartments from her own. The little ones were surrounded by a large retinue, which included a governess, a second governess, a wet nurse, a second wet nurse, a nanny, eight servants, an officer in charge of the silver, and a doctor.
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Title:Portrait of Louis XIV and his brother Felipe d'Orleáns