A Second First Lady of Versailles

When Marie Thérèse d'Autriche died in 1683, Louis XIV considered marrying a second wife. He decided against this for the reasons that second marriages were usually unhappy and unfortunate for France.
Also, his daughter-in-law, Marie-Anne-Victoire de Bavière had recently given birth to a healthy second son, the Duc d'Anjou (future D. Felipe V of Spain) when he notified the conseil d'etat of the decision (December 1683).
Then in 1690, Marie-Anne-Victoire died (if anyone cane tell me of what, I would appreciate it). And a second marriage was considered for the Dauphin, since Louis XIV was already married (albeit secretly) to Madame Scarron - Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon.
But what if he had decided, for his "gloire" that he/the dauphin should remarry? Who might he take? And what effects would said marriage have on French foreign policies?
 
I read somewhere that Sophie Charlotte of Hannover was considered (cousin of the famouis duchesse d'Orléans); also were Luiza Isabel of Portugal, princess of Beira and Anna Maria Luisa de Medici (though I'm not sure if this was for a first or second marriage). There was likewise talk of the younger Elisabeth-Charlotte becoming the new dauphine (but that went more or less the same way as her proposed marriage to Bourgogne and to Josef Kajetan of Bavaria).
An interesting match would be Leopold I's daughter, Maria Antonia, heiress (by Hapsburg reckoning anyway) to the Spanish throne through her mother, Margarita. That way, any child of the Dauphin and Maria Antonia would have an undeniable claim to the crowns of Spain, ergo, possibly butterflying away the war of the Spanish Succession
 
An interesting match would be Leopold I's daughter, Maria Antonia, heiress (by Hapsburg reckoning anyway) to the Spanish throne through her mother, Margarita. That way, any child of the Dauphin and Maria Antonia would have an undeniable claim to the crowns of Spain, ergo, possibly butterflying away the war of the Spanish Succession

I doubt many countries would want Spain and France united regardless.
 
I doubt many countries would want Spain and France united regardless.
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That wouldn't unite the two countries. Monseigneur three sons from his first marriage would be higher in the French Succession. Though if such a marriage were to produce a son I wonder if he would be placed on Spain's throne instead of the Duc de Anjou. After all France always maintained that they were the heirs to the Spanish throne as they descended from the Eldest daughters of the Kings of Spain and that their renunciations of rights were invalid because of unpaid dowries. Truth is the Bourbons did have a superior claim but would Emperor Leopold really want to strengthen the Bourbon claim to Spain?
 
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