 Constant wars with many of the major powers in Europe rendered a significant marriage with a foreign princess unlikely, or so Louis XIV told his brother, "Monsieur", when persuading him to accept the king's legitimised daughter, Françoise Marie de Bourbon (known as "Mademoiselle de Blois"), as wife for Philippe.The king offered a dowry of two million "livres" with his daughter's hand (not to be paid until the Nine Years' War was over), as well as the "Palais-Royal" for the bridegroom's parents.Upon hearing that her son had agreed to the marriage, Philippe's mother slapped his face in full view of the court and turned her back on the king as he bowed to her.