Editing Anne of Austria (section)

===Birth of an heir===
[[File:Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, and their son Louis XIV, flanked by Cardinal Richelieu and the Duchesse de Chevreuse.jpg|right|thumb|[[Louis XIII]], Anne, and their son [[Louis XIV]], flanked by [[Cardinal Richelieu]] and the Duchesse de Chevreuse]]
{{Quote box|align=right|width=40%|salign=right|They saw in the arms of this princess whom they had watched suffer great persecutions with so much staunchness, their child-King, like a gift given by Heaven in answer to their prayers.|—Madame de Motteville{{Sfn|Fraser|2007}}}}

Despite a climate of distrust, the queen became pregnant once more, a circumstance attributed to a single stormy night in December 1637{{efn|name=dec1637
|According to a contemporary account,{{sfn|Kleinman|1993|p=193}} on the night of 5 December 1637, the King was caught in a storm in the centre of Paris and was unable to reach his own bed, which had been arranged for him at the [[Princes of Condé|Condé]] estate in [[Saint-Maur-des-Fossés#Château|Saint-Maur]], south-east of [[Vincennes]]. Cut off from his household staff, he was persuaded by the Captain of the Queen's Guard to spend the night at the Louvre; as a result, the King and Queen ate together and, since there was no royal bed available except the Queen's, slept together as well, resulting in Louis XIV's birth exactly nine months later.{{sfn|Noone|1988|p=42}}{{sfn|Kleinman|1993|pp=193–194}}}} or, as historians deem more likely, to a royal tour that occurred sometime during the previous month.{{efn|name=nov1637
|The reliable ''[[La Gazette (France)|La Gazette]]'' recorded that the royal couple lodged in [[Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye|St Germain]] from 9 November till 1 December 1637, before heading to Paris. On 2 December, the King travelled from Paris to [[Crosne, Essonne|Crosne]]–instead of Saint-Maur–whence he went to [[History of the Palace of Versailles#Louis XIII|Versailles]] on 5 December while the Queen remained in Paris. Kleinman contends that the King might well have stopped over in Paris on his way to Versailles, but even if he had spent the night of 5 December with the Queen, it doesn't imply this was the first time they shared a bed since August. The Queen's doctor, [[Charles Bouvard]], calculated that her pregnancy had begun at the end of November.{{sfn|Kleinman|1993|p=194}}}} [[Louis XIV]] was born on 5 September 1638, an event that secured the Bourbon line. At this time, Anne was 37.{{Sfn|Fraser|2007}} The official newspaper ''[[Gazette de France]]'' called the birth "a marvel when it was least expected".{{Sfn|Fraser|2007}}

The birth of a living son failed to re-establish confidence between the royal couple. However, she conceived again fifteen months later. At [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] on 21 September 1640, Anne gave birth to her second son, [[Philippe I, Duke of Orléans]], who later founded the modern [[House of Orléans]]. Both of her children were placed under the supervision of the royal governess [[Françoise de Lansac]], who was disliked by Anne and loyal to the king and the cardinal.{{sfn|Kleinman|1985|page=146}} 

Richelieu made Louis XIII a gift of his palatial hôtel, the ''[[Palais-Royal|Palais Cardinal]]'', north of the Louvre, in 1636, but the king never took possession of it. Anne left the [[Louvre Palace]] to install herself there with her two small sons and remained as regent, hence the name Palais-Royal that the structure still carries.