I am Madame Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, I was a German member of the House of Wittelsbach who married into the French royal family. I was the second wife of Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (younger brother of Louis XIV of France). By Philippe, Liselotte was the mother of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and Élisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Lorraine. Philippe II was France's ruler during the Regency. I gained literary and historical importance primarily through preservation of my correspondence, which is of great cultural and historical value due to my sometimes very blunt descriptions of French court life and is today one of the best-known German-language texts of the Baroque period.