Conti Louise Marguerite

Conti, Louise Marguerite of Lorraine, Princess of, was the daughter of Henry, Duke of Guise, and by her beauty and wit attracted the admiration of Henry IV., who would have married her. She allied herself, however, in 1605 to Francis, Prince of Conti, and on his death in 1614 married Marshal Bassompierre, whose disgrace she shared, dying in 1631. She left a diverting History of the Amours of Alcander the Great, the king being designated by this transparent pseudonym.