Charlotte d'Lorraine, Mlle d'Armagnac

Biography

Charlotte never married, though she had many suitors, and was quite a bon vivant. It is tempting to make her a confidant of la Maupin, and perhaps even the "sister" during the incident of the key.

A story repeated in a couple of sources has her assaulted not far from where la Maupin lived and worked. It appears that the origin of this story is the following from "Singularités historiques" by Jacques-Antoine Dulaure:

Sous Louis XIV le jardin des Tuileries était le seul fréquenté par les courtisans et les gens de qualité. Aux heures de la promenade, on voyait aux portes de ce jardin jusqu à quatre ou cinq mille laquais, qui en attendant se racontaient les fredaines de leurs maîtres et maîtresses, juraient criaient et faisaient niches aux passans. Un de ces laquais, pour montrer plus de bravoure que ses camarades, leur dit que s'ils voulaient seulement lui payer une bouteille de vin, il gagerait de lever la jupe et fouetter la première qui sortirait du jardin. La gageure fut acceptée sur le champ; chacun attendait avec impatience le plaisir d un pareil spectacle. Bientôt ils aperçurent deux dames s'avancer. Le laquais voit que l instant est arrivé de remplir sa promesse saisit une de ces femmes sans la connaître, la trousse, la fouette, et les ris de ses camarades éclatent; mais ces dames outrées d une telle brutalité crient au secours et arrêtent elles mêmes le laquais. Plusieurs personnes accourent et reconnaissent dans ces dames insultées mademoiselle d'Armagnac et la marquise de Villequier. Le drôle fut mené en prison; plusieurs juges opinèrent pour le faire pendre; cependant il fut condamné au carcan et aux galères où il apprit ce qu il en coûtait pour trousser publiquement des princesses et des marquises.

Which, using my usual mechanical techniques, translates something like:

During the reign of Louis XIV the Tuileries Gardens was solely frequented by courtiers and people of quality. In the hours of promenade, could be seen on the outskirts of the garden up to four or five thousand footmen, who told each other while waiting the escapades of their masters and mistresses, and shouted and swore at passers by from the recesses. One of these servants, to show more courage than his companions, told them that if they would only pay him a bottle of wine, he would wager to lift the skirt and whip the first to come out of the garden. The challenge was accepted on the spot, each looking forward to the pleasure of such a sight. Soon they saw two ladies come forward. The lackey saw that the moment had arrived to fulfill his promise took one of those women without knowing her the kit, the whipped, and the laughing of his comrades broke out, but the ladies outraged from such brutality cried for help and held the lackey themselves. Many people rush in and recognize the insulted ladies as Mlle d'Armagnac and Marquise de Villequier. The fellow was led to prison; a number of judges were of the opinion to have him hanged, but he was sentenced to the pillory and the galleys, where he learned what it cost to truss publicly princesses and marquises.