@article{oai:kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000112,
 author = {嶋中, 博章 and Shimanaka, Hiroaki},
 journal = {関西大学東西学術研究所紀要},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {In early modern France, each member of the royal family had their own household (Maison). The queen and the princesses also had their own Maison in which aristocratic women held the offices of ladies-in-waiting (dame d’honneur, dame d’atour and dames du palais) or women of the bedchamber (femmes de la chambre). This paper sheds light on these female noble servants of princesses during the reign of Louis XIV to reconsider a common image of the Versailles Court indicating that the king manipulated the nobility through complex rites and rituals. Judging from the numbers, the royal women’s households were a male - dominated society. However, the female attendants of princesses occupied the center both in the Court and the Maison. They served their mistresses familiarly; they were appointed by the king while most male servants gained their positions through the venality of offices; as for the ladies-in-waiting, they were offered apartments in the palace which were the envy of every courtier. In the case of the Maison of the Duchesse de Bourgogne who married Louis XIV’s grandson in 1697, the female servants were bonded together by multiple social ties, that is to say, a friendship, a blood relationship, a patron-client relationship, or a fidelity relationship. Most ladies-in-waiting and women of the bedchamber had served at other royal women’s Maisons, therefore, some of them were already ex-colleagues; the greater part of the ladies-in-waiting were relatives or friends of Madame de Maintenon, a well-known royal mistress; some of the women of the bedchamber were mother and daughter. These women had a variety of duties-in support of their mistress’ daily life, care of pregnant princesses, attendance at various court ceremonies, and so on. Even after death of their mistress, they fulfilled important roles in the funeral which continued two months. In principle, the rules and the customs were respected at the court, but in practice, it was not unusual for customs to be broken, so the ladies-in-waiting needed to deal with the violations. Often, they attempted to break the customs by themselves under certain circumstances. Since the conventions of the court society were unstable even under the reign of the Sun King, the common image of a mechanical court should be regarded as a caricature., 2022年度関西大学若手研究者育成経費（個人研究）
研究課題「近世フランスにおける女性王族の宮廷と女官の研究」},
 pages = {A3--A27},
 title = {ルイ14世治下ヴェルサイユ宮廷の女官たち : ブルゴーニュ公妃の家中を中心に},
 volume = {56},
 year = {2023}
}