#john hardman

Seeing that Louis was at last enjoying conjugal relations, two attempts were made by courtiers to fix him up with a mistress they could manipulate to their advantage. But they failed: Louis, like George III, remained faithful to his wife. The rumour that the daughter of Madame Elisabeth's chambermaid, who was brought up with Marie Therese to give the latter the common touch, was in fact Louis' bastard was just that, a rumour.