Louise Marie Therese (1664-1732), a French nun, was known as the "Black Nun of Moret" and rumored to be the illegitimate daughter of the Queen of France, Maria Theresa of Spain.
Speculators point to the Queen's African dwarf, Nabo, who entertained the Queen, as the possible father of Louise Marie Therese. The Queen did give birth to a baby with dark skin (perhaps caused by cyanosis) that died within a month. According to Wikipedia: "Some say that the baby remained black, and had been changed with a dead girl, to avoid scandal."
A portrait of Louise Marie Therese hangs in the Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève in Paris.
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Mixed Experience History Month is an annual blog post series celebrating the history of the Mixed experience. Established on Heidi Durrow's blog Light-skinned-ed Girl in 2007, Mixed Experience History Month is an effort to illuminate achievements of multiracial and multicultural individuals (not tragic mulattoes) and people and events central to the Mixed experience. Please look for more profiles of people, places and events of the Mixed experience every weekday of May at Lightskinned-ed Girl, the blog, or Mixed Chicks Chat blog, the blog for the weekly award-winning podcast about being racially and culturally mixed! Thanks for reading. You can also read past year's series: 2007, 2008, 2009.
