Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte (; 27 May 1652 – 8 December 1722) was a German princess and, as
Madame, the wife of
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of
Louis XIV of France, and mother of France's ruler during the
Regency. Louis invoked her hereditary claim to the
Palatinate as pretext to launch the
Nine Years' War in 1688. Her vast, frank correspondence provides a detailed account of the personalities and activities at the court of her brother-in-law,
Louis XIV for half a century, from the date of her marriage in 1672.