Louise Anna de Bourbon ( June 23, 1695 , Versailles - April 8, 1758 , Paris ) is a French princess, the daughter of Louis III of Bourbon , Prince Conde, and his wife, Louise Francoise de Bourbon , the legalized daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous favorite Francoise Athenais de Montespan . At court she was known as Mademoiselle de Charolais .
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Biography
Louise Anna was the fourth child and third daughter in the family [2] . She was baptized in the chapel of Versailles on November 24, 1698 with her brother Louis Henri and sister Louise Elizabeth .
During the regency of her cousin, Philip II , Duke of Orleans, she had a romantic relationship with the Duke of Richelieu , the granddaughter of Cardinal Richelieu . At the same time, the Duke of Richelieu began an affair with her cousin Louise Aglaya of Orleans , known at court as Mademoiselle de Valois. The rival cousins later both will fiercely (but separately) fight for the release of the duke from imprisonment in the Bastille after participating in the Cellamare conspiracy .
At one time, she was considered a possible bride for her cousin, Louis Auguste , Prince Domb, but she refused to marry him. Another alleged husband was the Duke of Chartres , son of Regent and heir to the Orleans House. His mother, however, chose a more prestigious young German princess for her son.
Years passed, and Louise Anna was constantly involved in palace intrigues. Later, she will help her cousin Louis XV in finding new lovers. At one time, according to rumors, she herself was one of the king's mistresses; her older sister, Louise Elizabeth, introduced Madame de Pompadour to the French court in the 1740s.
Louise Anna's father died in 1710, eleven months after he inherited the title of Prince de Conde after the death of his father. Her mother, who built the Bourbon Palace in Paris, died in 1743 at the age of seventy. Since her cousin Louis Orleans did not have a daughter who would reach adulthood, Louise Anna from 1728 became known at the court as mademoiselle .
Louise Anna owned several houses in Paris, its suburbs and in Burgundy. Louise Anna died in Paris at the age of 62. She was buried in the Carmelite Monastery of Faubur-Saint-Jacques. Her brother Louis Henri, the Duke of Bourbon, and two sisters, Maria Anna and Elizabeth Alexandrina , were also buried there.
Titles and appeals
- June 23, 1695 - July 6, 1713 : Her Grace Mademoiselle de Sen [3]
- July 6, 1713 - May 14, 1728 : Her Grace Mademoiselle de Charolais
- May 14, 1728 - July 9, 1750 : Her Grace Mademoiselle
- July 9, 1750 - April 8, 1758 : Her Grace Mademoiselle de Charolais
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans : [ fr. ] . - Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel, 1768 .-- P. 44.
- ↑ Heraldica.org Style of HSH and further information on Princes of the Blood - Other princes of the blood were only entitled to Most Serene Highness (Altesse Sérénissime) from 1651 to 1824, when they received the style of Royal Highness.