Submitted by Leo
van de Pas
(corrections/additions are welcome)
The Descendants of
Athenais de Rochechouart
(4 generations)
Athenais de Rochechouart
Born 26 April 1641 Chateau de
Tonnay
Died 28 May 1707 Bourbon L'Archambault
Married 1663 (Separated 7 July
1674)
Henri Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin,
Marquis de Montespan
Died November 1702
Children by (a) Louis XIV,
King of France and Navarre
1643-1651-1715, son of Louis XIII
"le Juste", King of
France and Navarre 1610-1614-1643
and Anna of Austria,
Infanta of Spain
Born 5 September 1638 St.Germain-en-Laye
Died 1 September 1715 Chateau
de Versailles
Buried St.Denis
Children, Generation I
Generation I
(a) 1 NN batard de
Bourbon
Born 1669
Died young
2
NN batarde de Bourbon
Born 1669
Died 1672
3
Louis Auguste de Bourbon
Duc de Maine et d'Aumale
Born 31 March 1670 St.Germain-en-Laye
Died 14 May 1736 Sceaux
Married 19 March 1692 Versailles
Louise de Bourbon-Conde, Mademoiselle de Charolais,
daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince de Conde and
Pfalzgrafin Anna Henriette Julie von Pfalz-Simmern
Born 8 November 1676 Paris
Died 23 January 1753 Paris, Hotel du Maine
Children, Generation II-1
4
Louis Cesar de Bourbon
Comte de Vexin
Born June 1672 Le Genitoy nr Lagny
Died 10 January 1683 (or 1685) Paris
5 Louise Francoise de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Nantes
Born 1 June 1673 Tournai
Died 16 June 1743 Paris, Palais de Bourbon
Married 24 July 1685 Versailles
Louis III de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, son of Henri Jules
de Bourbon, Prince de Conde and Pfalzgraefin Anna Henriette
Julie von Pfalz-Simmern
Born 11 October 1668 Paris, Hotel de Conde
Died 4 March 1710 Paris
Buried Valery
Children, Generation II-2
6
Louise Marie de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Tours
Born 12 November 1674 St.Germain-en-Laye
Died 15 September 1681 Bourbon-l'Archambault
7
Francoise Marie de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Blois
Born 9 February 1677 Chateau de Maintenon
Died 1 February 1749 Paris
Married 18 February 1692 Versailles
Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France 1715-1723,
son of Philippe I, Duke of Orleans and Princess Elisabeth
Charlotte von der Pfalz, Herzogin von Bayern, Pfalzgraefin
am Rhein
Born 2 August 1674 St.Cloud
Died 2 December 1723 Versailles
Buried St.Denis
Children, Generation II-3
8
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon
Comte de Toulouse, Duc de Penthievre
Born 6 June 1678 Versailles
Died 1 December 1737 Chateau de Rambouillet
Married 2 February 1723 Paris
Marie Victoire Sophie de Noailles, daughter of Anne Jules
de Noailles, 2.Duc de Noailles and Marie Francoise de
Bournonville
Born 6 May 1688
Died 30 September 1766 Paris, Hotel de Toulouse
Children by (a) Madeleine Aumont
Children, Generation II-4
II-1
(I-3)
1 NN de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Dombes
Born 11 September 1694 Versailles
Died 26 September 1694 Versailles
2
Louis Constantine de Bourbon
Prince de Dombes
Born 27 November 1695 Versailles
Died 28 September 1698 Versailles
3
NN de Bourbon
Mademoiselle d'Aumale
Born 21 December 1697 Versailles
Died 24 August 1699 Versailles
4
Louis Auguste de Bourbon
Prince de Dombes
Born 4 March 1700 Versailles
Died 1 October 1755 Fontainebleau
5
Louis Charles de Bourbon
Comte d'Eu, Prince de Dombes
Born 15 October 1701 Sceaux
Died 13 July 1775 Sceaux
6
Charles de Bourbon
Duc d'Aumale
Born 31 March 1704 Versailles
Died 2 September 1708 Sceaux
7
Louise Francoise de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Nantes
Born 4 December 1707 Versailles
Died 19 August 1743 Anet
II-2
(I-5)
1 Marie Anne Gabrielle Eleonore de Bourbon-Conde
Madame de Bourbon
Born 22 December 1690 Versailles
Died 30 August 1760 Villejuif
2
Louis Henri de Bourbon
Prince de Conde
Born 18 August 1692 Versailles
Died 27 January 1740 Chantilly
Buried Valery
Married (1) 9 July 1713 Versailles
Marie Anne de Bourbon-Conti, Mademoiselle de Conti,
daughter of Francois Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conti and
Marie Therese de Bourbon-Cond., Mademoiselle de Bourbon
Born 18 April 1689 Versailles
Died 21 March 1720 Paris
Married (2) 23 July 1728 Sarry nr Chalons
Landgraefin Caroline von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg,
daughter of Ernst Leopold, Landgraf von
Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg 1725-1749 and Countess Eleonore
zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Born 18 August 1714 Rotenburg
Died 14 June 1741 Paris
Child by (a) Armande Felice de La Porte Mazarin, daughter
of Paul Jules de La Porte Mazarin, Duc de Mazarin et de La
Meilleraye and Felice Armande de Durfort
Born 3 September 1691
Died 14 October 1729
Children, Generation III-1
3
Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Conde
Mademoiselle de Charolais
Born 22 November 1693 Versailles
Died 27 May 1775 Paris
Married 9 July 1713 Versailles
Louis Armand II de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, son of
Francois Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conti and Marie
Therese de Bourbon-Conde, Mademoiselle de Bourbon
Born 10 November 1695 Paris
Died 4 May 1727 Paris
Children, Generation III-2
4
Louise Anne de Bourbon-Conde
Mademoiselle de Sens
Born 23 June 1695 Versailles
Died 8 April 1758 Paris
5
Marie Anne de Bourbon-Conde
Mademoiselle de Clermont
Born 16 October 1697 Paris
Died 11 August 1741 Paris
6
Charles de Bourbon-Conde
Comte de Charolais
Born 19 June 1700 Chantilly
Died 23 July 1760 Paris
Children by Marguerite Caron de Rancurel, Dame de Lassone
Died 24 February 1800 Paris
Children, Generation III-3
7
Henriette de Bourbon-Conde
Mademoiselle de Vermandois
Born 15 January 1703 Versailles
Died 19 September 1772 Beaumont-les-Tours
8
Elisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon-Conde
Mademoiselle de Gex
Born 15 September 1705 Paris
Died 15 April 1765 Paris
9
Louis de Bourbon-Conde
Comte de Clermont
Born 15 June 1709 Versailles
Died 16 June 1771 Versailles
II-3
(I-7)
1 Princess NN d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Valois
Born 17 December 1693 Marly
Died 17 October 1694 Paris
Buried Paris, Val-de-Grace
2
Princess Marie Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans
Born 20 August 1695 Versailles
Died 21 July 1719 Chateau de La Muette
Buried St. Denis
Married 6 July 1710 Versailles
Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Berry, d'Alencon et d'Angouleme,
son of Louis "le Grand Dauphin", Dauphin of France and
Duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria, Pfalzgraefin bei Rhein
Born 31 August 1686 Versailles
Died 4 May 1714 Marly
Buried Versailles
Child by (a) Sicaire Antoine d'Aydie, Comte de Rions
Children, Generation III-4
3
Princess Louise Adelaide d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Chartres
Born 13 August 1698 Versailles
Died 10 February 1743 Paris
Buried Paris
4
Princess Charlotte Aglae d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Valois
Born 20 October 1700 Paris
Died 19 January 1761 Paris, Palais du Luxembourg
Married 21 June 1720 Modena
Francesco III Maria d'Este, Duke of Modena, son of Rinaldo
III d'Este, Duke of Modena 1695-1737 and Princess Charlotte
of Brunswick-Lueneburg
Born 2 July 1698 Modena
Died 22 February 1780 Varese
Children, Generation III-5
5
Louis I
Duke of Orleans
Born 4 August 1703 Versailles
Died 4 February 1752 Paris
Married 18 June 1724 Sarri
Markgraefin Auguste von Baden-Baden, daughter of Ludwig
Wilhelm, Markgraf von Baden-Baden and Duchess Sibylle of
Saxe-Lauenburg, Duchess of Saxony
Born 10 November 1704 Aschaffenburg
Died 8 August 1726 Palais Royal
Children, Generation III-6
6
Princess Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Montpensier
Born 11 December 1709 Versailles
Died 16 June 1742 Paris, Palais du Luxembourg
Buried Paris, St.Sulpice
Married 20 January 1722 Lerma
Luis I, King of Spain 1724-1724, son of Felipe V, King of
Spain 1700-1746 and Princess Maria Luisa de Savoie
Born 25 August 1707 Versailles
Died 31 August 1724 Madrid
Buried Escurial
S.P.
7
Princess Philippine Elisabeth d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Beaujolais
Born 18 December 1714 Versailles
Died 21 May 1734 Bagnolet, Val de Marne
8 Princess Louise Diane d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Chartres
Born 27 June 1716 Paris
Died 26 September 1736 Issy
Buried Paris, St.Andre des Arcs
Married 22 January 1732 Versailles
Louis Francois de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, son of Louis
Armand II de Bourbon, Prince de Conti and Louise Elisabeth
de Bourbon-Conde, Mademoiselle de Charolais
Born 13 August 1717 Paris
Died 2 August 1776 Paris
Children, Generation III-7
II-4
(I-8)
1 Louis Jean de Bourbon
Duc de Penthievre, de Rambouillet
Born 16 November 1725 Rambouillet
Died 4 March 1793 Vernon
Married 25 December 1744 Versailles
Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Princess of Modena, daughter
of Francesco III Maria d'Este, Duke of Modena and Princess
Charlotte Aglae d'Orleans, Mademoiselle de Valois
Born 6 October 1726 Modena
Died 30 April 1754 Rambouillet
Children, Generation III-8
(a) 2 Louis Alexandre
de Sainte-Foy
Born 1720
Died young
3
Philippe Auguste de Sainte-Foix
"Le Chevalier d'Arcq"
Born July 1721 Paris
Died 1795 Paris
Married 11 February 1772 Paris
Anne Marie Richard, daughter of Joseph Richard
Died 1801
Children, Generation III-9
III-1 (II-2-2)
(a) 1 Henriette de
Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Verneuil
Born 23 April 1725 Paris
Died 11 September 1780 Beaumont-les-Tours
Married 17 November 1740 Paris, Saint Sulpice
Comte Jean de Laguiche, Comte de Serignon, Baron du
Rousset, son of Marquis Claude de Laguiche and Louise
Eleonore de Langheac de Coligny
Born 14 July 1719 Serignon
Died 28 January 1770 Paris
Children, Generation IV-1
(2) 2 Louis Joseph
de Bourbon
Prince de Conde
Born 9 August 1736 Paris
Died 13 May 1818 Palais Bourbon
Married (1) 3 May 1753 Versailles
Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise, daughter of Charles de Rohan,
Prince de Soubise, Duc de Rohan-Rohan and Anne Marie Louise
de La Tour d'Auvergne
Born 7 October 1737 Paris
Died 4 March 1760 Paris
Married (2) 24 October 1798
Maria Caterina Brignole, daughter of Nob. Giovanni Maria
Brignole, Marchese de Brignole-Sale and Anna Balbi
Born 7 October 1737
Died 18 March 1813 Wimbledon
Children, Generation IV-2
III-2 (II-2-3)
1 Louis de Bourbon-Conti
Comte de La Marche
Born 28 March 1715 Paris
Died 1 August 1717 Paris
2
Louis Francois de Bourbon
Prince de Conti
Born 13 August 1717 Paris
Died 2 August 1776 Paris
Married 22 January 1732 Versailles
Princess Louise Diane d'Orleans, Mademoiselle de Chartres,
daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France
1715-1723 and Francoise Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de
Blois
Born 27 June 1716 Paris
Died 26 September 1736 Issy
Buried Paris, St.Andre des Arcs
Children by (a) Marie Claude Gaucher-Dailly, Madame de
Brimont
Children, Generation IV-3
3
Louis Armand de Bourbon-Conti
Duc de Mercoeur
Born 19 August 1720 Paris
Died 13 May 1722 Paris
4
Charles de Bourbon-Conti
Comte d'Alais
Born 5 February 1722 Paris
Died 7 August 1730 Paris
5
Louise Henriette de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Conti
Born 20 June 1726 Paris
Died 9 February 1759 Paris
Married 17 December 1743 Versailles
Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, son of Louis I, Duke of
Orleans and Markgrafin Auguste von Baden-Baden
Born 12 May 1725 Versailles
Died 18 November 1785 Chateau St.Assise-en-Brie
Children, Generation IV-4
III-3 (II-2-6)
1 Marie Marguerite de Bourbon
Demoiselle de Bourbon
Born 17 August 1752
Died after 1830
Married (1) December 1769
Comte Denis Nicolas du Puget
Died 3 October 1777
Married (2) Lewis Toujard, Colonel
Children, Generation IV-5
2
Charlotte Marguerite Elisabeth de Bourbon-Charolais
Demoiselle de Bourbon
Born 1 August 1754
Died 12 September 1839
Married 3 February 1772
Francois Xavier Joseph, Count af Danneskiold-Lovendal, son
of Ulrich Friedrich Woldemar, Count von Lovendal and
Countess Barbe Madeleine Szembek
Born 28 December 1742 Warszawa, Poland
Died 20 September 1808 's-Gravenhage
Children, Generation IV-6
III-4 (II-3-2)
1 NN de Bourbon
Born 1711
Died 21 July 1711 Fontainebleau
2
Charles de Bourbon
Duc d'Alencon
Born 26 March 1713 Versailles
Died 16 April 1714 Versailles
Buried St.Denis
3
Marie Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon
Born 16 June 1714 Versailles
Died 17 June 1714 Versailles
Buried St.Denis
(a) 4 NN (daughter)
d'Aydie de Rions
III-5 (II-3-4)
1 Alfonso d'Este
Prince of Modena
Born 18 November 1723
Died 16 June 1725 Reggio
2
Francesco Constantino d'Este
Prince of Modena
Born 22 November 1724
Died 16 June 1725
3
Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este
Princess of Modena
Born 6 October 1726 Modena
Died 30 April 1754 Rambouillet
Married 25 December 1744 Versailles
Louis Jean de Bourbon, Duc de Penthievre, de Rambouillet,
son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse, Duc
de PenthiŠvre and Marie Victoire Sophie de Noailles
Born 16 November 1725 Rambouillet
Died 4 March 1793 Vernon
Children, Generation IV-7
4
Ercole III d'Este
Duke of Modena
Born 22 November 1727 Modena
Died 14 October 1803 Treviso
Married 16 April 1741 Massa
Donna Maria Teresa Cybo, Duchess of Massa and Carrara,
daughter of Alderano Cybo, 4.Duke of Massa and Carrara
1715-1731 and Richarde Gonzaga-Novellara
Born 29 June 1725 Novellara
Died 25 December 1790 Reggio
Children, Generation IV-8
5
Mathilde d'Este
Princess of Modena
Born 7 February 1729 Genoa
Died 14 November 1803 Treviso
6
NN d'Este
Prince of Modena
Born 14 July 1730 Modena
Died 12 July 1731 Reggio
7
NN d'Este
Princess of Modena
Born 24 November 1731
Died 3 April 1736
8
Fortunee Marie d'Este
Princess of Modena
Born 15 July 1734 Modena
Died 21 September 1803 Venice
Married 27 February 1759 Nangis Div.
Louis Francois II Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, son
of Louis Francois de Bourbon, Prince de Conti and Princess
Louise Diane d'Orleans, Mademoiselle de Chartres
Born 1 September 1734 Paris
Died 13 March 1814 Barcelona
S.P.
9
Benedict d'Este
Prince of Modena
Born 30 September 1736 Paris
Died 16 September 1751 Modena
10
Maria Ernestina d'Este
Princess of Modena
Born 12 February 1741
Died 4 August 1774
III-6 (II-3-5)
1 Louis Philippe I
Duke of Orleans
Born 12 May 1725 Versailles
Died 18 November 1785 Chateau St.Assise-en-Brie
Married (1) 17 December 1743 Versailles
Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Conti,
daughter of Louis Armand II de Bourbon, Prince de Conti and
Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Conde, Mademoiselle de
Charolais
Born 20 June 1726 Paris
Died 9 February 1759 Paris
Married (2) 23 April 1773 Paris
Charlotte Beraud de la Haye de Riou, daughter of Jean
Beraud de la Haye de Riou, Seigneur de la Gauvrillere and
Josefa Minard
Born 5 October 1738
Died 6 February 1806 Paris
Children by (a) Etiennette Le Marquis, Madame de
Villemonble
Children, Generation IV-9
2
Princesse Louise Madeleine d'Orleans
Mademoiselle d'Orleans
Born 5 August 1726 Paris
Died 11 May 1728 St.Cloud
Buried Val de Grace
III-7 (II-3-8)
1
Louis Francois II Joseph de Bourbon
Prince de Conti
Born 1 September 1734 Paris
Died 13 March 1814 Barcelona
Married 27 February 1759 Nangis Div.
Fortunee Marie d'Este, Princess of Modena, daughter of
Francesco III Maria d'Este, Duke of Modena and Princess
Charlotte Aglae d'Orleans, Mademoiselle de Valois
Born 15 July 1734 Modena
Died 21 September 1803 Venice
Child by (a) Anne-Marie Veroneze "Coraline"
Born 1761 Paris
Died 3 August 1785 Melun
Children, Generation IV-10
2
NN de Bourbon-Conti
Born September 1736
Died September 1736
III-8 (II-4-1)
1 Louis de Bourbon Penthievre
Duc de Rambouillet
Born 2 January 1746 Versailles
Died circa 13 November 1749 Versailles
2
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon Penthievre
Prince de Lamballe
Born 6 September 1747 Paris
Died 6 May 1768 Louveciennes
Buried Dreux
Married 31 January 1767 Nangis
Princess Maria Teresa de Savoie-Carignan, daughter of Luigi
Vittorio de Savoie, Prince de Carignan and Landgrafin
Christine von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
Born 8 September 1749 Torino, Italy
Died 3 September 1792 Paris (guillotine)
S.P.
3
Jean Marie de Bourbon Penthievre
Duc de Chateau-Villain
Born 17 July 1748 Paris
Died 19 May 1755 Paris
Buried Dreux
4
Vincent Marie Louis de Bourbon Penthievre
Comte de Guingamp
Born 22 June 1750 Paris
Died 14 March 1752 Versailles
Buried Dreux
5
Marie Louise de Bourbon-Penthievre
Mademoiselle de Penthievre
Born 18 October 1751 Paris
Died 25 September 1753 Versailles
Buried Dreux
6
Adelaide de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Penthievre
Born 13 March 1753 Paris
Died 23 June 1821 Ivry-sur-Seine
Buried Chap.St.Louis, Dreux
Married 5 April 1769 Versailles Div.1792/3
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans "Philippe Egalite", son
of Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orleans and Louise Henriette
de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Conti
Born 13 April 1747 St. Cloud
Died 6 November 1793 Paris (guillotine)
Children, Generation IV-11
7
Louis Marie Felicite de Bourbon Penthievre
Born 29 April 1754 Paris
Died 30 April 1754 Paris
Buried Dreux
III-9 (II-4-3)
1 NN de Sainte-Foix
Born 14 September 1767
Died 23 January 1795
IV-1
(III-1-1)
1 Charles Amable de Laguiche
Comte de Serignon, Comte de Laguiche
Born 22 September 1747 Paris
Died 28 June 1794 Paris (executed)
Married 1777
Jeanne Marie de Clermont-Montoison
Born 15 April 1757 Chagny
Died 19 February 1822 Nuits-sur-Raviere
IV-2
(III-1-2)
(1) 1 Marie de Bourbon-Conde
Mademoiselle de Bourbon
Born 16 February 1755 Paris
Died 22 June 1759 Paris
2
Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon
Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Conde
Born 13 April 1756 Paris
Died 30 August 1830 Chateau de Saint-Leu
Married 24 April 1770 Versailles
Princesse Bathilde d'Orleans, daughter of Louis Philippe I,
Duke of Orleans and Louise Henriette de Bourbon,
Mademoiselle de Conti
Born 9 July 1750 St.Cloud
Died 10 January 1822 Paris
Children by (a) Mademoiselle NN Michelot
3
Louise Adelaide de Bourbon-Conde
Born 5 October 1758 Chantilly
Died 10 March 1824 Paris
IV-3
(III-2-2)
1 = III-7-1
2 = III-7-2
(a) 3 Francois Claude
Fauste de Bourbon
Marquis de Bourbon-Removille
Born 21 March 1771
Died 8 June 1833 Paris
4
Marie-Francois de Bourbon
Chevalier de Bourbon-Conti
Born 22 December 1772
Died 6 June 1840
Married 20 April 1828
Henriette de La Brousse de Verteilhac, daughter of Francois
Gabriel Thibaud de La Brousse, Marquis de Verteilhac and
Jeanne Charlotte Appelvoisin de La Roche du Maine
Died 1881
S.P.
IV-4
(III-2-5)
1 Princesse NN d'Orleans
Born 12 July 1745 St.Cloud
Died 14 December 1745 St.Cloud
2
Louis Philippe II
Duke of Orleans "Philippe Egalite"
Born 13 April 1747 St. Cloud
Died 6 November 1793 Paris (guillotine)
Married 5 April 1769 Versailles Div.1792/3
Adelaide de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Penthievre, daughter
of Louis Jean de Bourbon, Duc de Penthievre, de Rambouillet
and Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Princess of Modena
Born 13 March 1753 Paris
Died 23 June 1821 Ivry-sur-Seine
Buried Chap.St.Louis, Dreux
Child by (a) Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St.Aubin, Madame
de Genlis
Born 1746 Champceri
Died 1830
Affaire with (b) Grace Dalrymple, daughter of Hew Dalrymple
Died 16 May 1823 nr. Sevres
3
Princesse Bathilde d'Orleans
Born 9 July 1750 St.Cloud
Died 10 January 1822 Paris
Married 24 April 1770 Versailles
Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de
Conde, son of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Conde and
Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise
Born 13 April 1756 Paris
Died 30 August 1830 Chateau de Saint-Leu
IV-5
(III-3-1)
(1) 1 Marguerite Marie
du Puget
Born 1772
Died circa 1860 Chateau de Vaux
Married circa 1805 Louisiana
Francois Louis Chemin de Forgues
IV-6
(III-3-2)
1 Count Carl Woldemar af Danneskiold-Lovendal
Born 30 January 1773
Died 22 December 1829
2
Countess Francoise Marguerite af Danneskiold-Lovendal
Born 1 February 1774
Died 13 May 1820
Married 18 February 1794
Count Christian Karl von Schimmelmann
Died 6 June 1842
3
Countess Elise de Danneskiold-Lovendal
Born 18 May 1777 Versailles
Died 11 October 1812 Paris
Married 1802 Paris
Jhr. Christiaan Bangeman Huygens, son of Willem Vincent
Bangeman and Catharina Constantia Huygens
Born 31 October 1772 St.Oedenrode
Died 29 March 1857 Maastricht
IV-7
(III-5-3)
1 = III-8-1
2
= III-8-2
3
= III-8-3
4
= III-8-4
5
= III-8-5
6
= III-8-6
7
= III-8-7
IV-8
(III-5-4)
1 Maria Beatrice d'Este
Duchess of Modena
Born 6 April 1750 Modena
Died 14 November 1829 Wien
Married 15 October 1771 Milano
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, son of Franz I Stephan,
Emperor, Duke of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany and
Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria, Queen of Hungary and
Bohemia
Born 1 June 1754 Wien
Died 24 December 1806 Wien
2
Rinaldo d'Este
Prince of Modena
Born 4 January 1753
Died 5 May 1753
IV-9
(III-6-1)
(1) 1 = IV-4-1
2
= IV-4-2
3
= IV-4-3
(a) 4 Comte Louis Etienne
de Saint-Phar
Born 21 January 1759 Paris
Died 24 July 1825 Paris
5
Comte Louis Philippe de Saint-Albin
Born 7 July 1761
Died 13 June 1829 Paris
6
Etiennette Marie Perrine d'Auvilliers
Mademoiselle de Villemonble
Married 1778
Francois Constantin, Comte de Brossard
IV-10 (III-7-1)
(a) 1 Louis Francois
de Bourbon
Chevalier de Vaureal
Born 1782
IV-11 (III-8-6)
1 Louis Philippe
King of The French
Born 6 October 1773 Paris
Died 26 August 1850 Claremont, Surrey, England
Married 25 November 1809 Palermo
Princess Maria Amelia of Naples and Sicily, daughter of
Ferdinando IV-I, King of The Two Sicilies and Archduchess
Maria Karoline of Austria
Born 26 April 1782 Caserta
Died 24 March 1866 Claremont, Surrey, England
2
Antoine Philippe d'Orleans
Duc de Montpensier
Born 3 July 1775 Paris
Died 18 May 1807 Salt Hill nr Windsor
3
Princess Adelaide d'Orleans
Born 23 August 1777 Palais Royal
Died 31 December 1847 Tuileries
4
Princesse NN d'Orleans
Born 23 August 1777
Died 1 February 1782
5
Louis Charles d'Orleans
Comte de Beaujolais
Born 7 October 1779 Paris
Died 30 May 1808 Malta
Louis XIV
King of France and Navarre 1643-1651-1715, (1638-1715)
At
the age of four he succeeded his father to become King of
France and through his reign
became the symbol of absolute monarchy.
However, he was also a neglected
child, cared for by servants. Once he
almost drowned in a pond
because no one was watching him. However, his
mother, Anne of Austria
who caused the neglect, instilled in him a
lasting fear of "crimes
committed against God".
In 1648 the nobles rose against the crown in protest against the
Prime Minister, Cardinal
Mazarin. This civil war, known as the Fronde,
lasted several years, bringing
Louis XIV poverty, misfortune, fear,
humiliation, cold and hunger.
This shaped his character and he would
never forgive either Paris,
the nobles, or the common people.
Cardinal Mazarin was victorious
in 1653 and constructed an
extraordinary administration
for the kingdom. Although Louis XIV had
been proclaimed to be of
age, he would not dispute the Cardinal's
absolute power. In 1658
he fell in love with Marie Mancini, a niece of
Cardinal Mazarin; but in
1660 he dutifully married a Spanish Infanta.
In 1661 Cardinal Mazarin
died and Louis XIV astonished his ministers
by announcing that he intended
to assume all responsibility for ruling
the kingdom.
He was fortunate that he had several great ministers to support
him and, for the next fifty-four
years, he devoted himself to the task
of controlling everything,
from court etiquette to troop movements,
from road building to theological
disputes. The nobilty, for centuries
a cause of instability in
the kingdom, were lured to the court and
corrupted with gambling
and dissipation, their destinies depending on
their capacity for pleasing
him. Etiquette became most important and
from that time the nobility
ceased to be an important factor in French
politics. In his younger
years he had mistresses who supplied him with
many illegitimate children,
all of whom were acknowledged.
Louis XIV was fortunate
in knowing how to bring out the best in his
people, while at the same
time France was fortunate in having so many
talented people. Louis XIV
built several new residences; however,
Versailles, cursed as an
extravagance, is the only one not only to
have survived but to become
an object of universal admiration
enhancing French prestige.
By living in Versailles Louis XIV had not
only removed himself from
the unhealthy city of Paris but also
isolated himself from his
people.
In 1667 he invaded the Spanish Netherlands which he regarded as
his first wife's inheritance.
This started a series of wars lasting
the greater part of his
reign. After a brilliant beginning he was
forced to retreat by the
English and the Dutch. He never forgave the
Dutch and, allying himself
with Charles II of England, invaded the
Netherlands in 1672. This
started a long war ending in 1678 with Louis
XIV triumphant.
In 1682 he transferred the seat of government to Versailles. A
year later his queen died
and he secretly married Madame de Maintenon,
so that hypocricy became
the rule at his court. Nevertheless, he
remained devoted to her
and, even late in life when she was over
seventy, she was told by
her confessor to fulfil her conjugal duties.
In 1685 he revoked the Edict of Nantes. This made him many enemies
and caused the departure
of the French Huguenots, as the revocation
was accompanied by pitiless
persecution which caused endless
misfortune. England, the
Dutch and the Emperor then united in the
Grand Alliance to resist
him, and the war starting in 1688 lasted
until 1697. At the Peace
Treaty of Rijswijk, he was forced not only to
return part of his territorial
acquisitions but also to acknowledge
his enemy, William of Orange
as King of England.
In 1700 the Spanish King, last of the Spanish Habsburgs, died and
bequeathed all his possessions
to Louis XIV's grandson. At first Louis
XIV hesitated to accept
but had to do so if only to prevent Spain from
falling to the hostile Habsburg
Emperor in Vienna. The War of the
Spanish Succession, instigated
by his enemy William of Orange, again
lasted for several years.
His last years were marred not only by this war but also by the
premature deaths of his
son, his grandson and two great-grandsons,
leaving a little boy to
succeed him when he died in 1715. When his
body was taken to the St.
Denis basilica, the population jeered.
Athenais de Rochechouart (1641-1707)
In
1666 when recovering from childbirth, Louise de La Valliere
introduced the witty Athenais
de Montespan to the king. Athenais was
twenty-six, beautiful, married
and the mother of two children. She was
also a lady-in-waiting to
the pious Queen, to whom she ingratiated
herself by pretending to
abhor the king's affair with Louise de La
Valliere. While her husband
was away she had a number of suitors.
However, in the king's presense
she would joke about them and then
flirt with the king.
Sophisticated, witty, voluptuous and sure of herself, she was also
patient. Early in 1667 Louis
XIV created Louise de La Valliere a
duchess. However, she was
not impressed as she believed she was losing
both her looks and the king's
affection.
It took until the summer of 1668 before Louis XIV overcame his
scruples and became the
lover of a married woman, Athenais. Had his
affaire with Louise been
idyllic, his affaire with Athenais was very
much sensual. The placid
Louise tried to object but for a while Louis
XIV had the two mistresses.
However, one who did more than just object
was Athenais's husband,
Louis, Marquis de Montespan, who was arrested
and banished to his estates.
The official reason was: having
disapproved His Majesty's
choice of Monsieur de Montausier as governor
of the Dauphin. When he
arrived at his castle, he insisted upon
passing through the great
doorway "because my horns are too high to
pass through the small one".
When Athenais gave birth to the king's
child in March 1669, he
announced to his friends "the death of his
wife from coquetry and ambition"
and invited them to a sham funeral.
Had Louise de La Valliere loved the king for himself, Athenais
loved him also for the power
and wealth that came to her with the
king. She not only had her
debts paid but also bought a house near the
Louvre, saw her father named
governor of Paris and her sister Abbess
of Fontevrault. Yet to everyone's
surprise Athenais retained the
friendship of Louise de
La Valliere.
When the king went to Flanders, he went in a coach accompanied by
his "three queens", a situation
that was to last for six years.
However, in 1670 Louise
became seriously ill and, after recovering
retired into a convent.
Following the departure of Louise de La
Valliere, Athenais became
even more avaricious, declining small
presents as, she said, she
preferred large ones. The offer of a
country house near Saint-Germain
was dismissed with "good enough for a
chorus girl". Instead, she
received the Chateau of Clagny.
The queen had always liked Louise de La Valliere but, unable to
cope with the vicious wit
of Athenais, was often heard to complain
"that slut will kill me
yet". The seven children Athenais produced for
Louis XIV were cared for
by Madame Scarron. From 1675 this widow
became known as Madame de
Maintenon.
However, Louis XIV not only still kept sleeping with both the
Queen and Athenais, but
also had affaires with Mademoiselle des
Oeillets, Anne de Rohan
(Princesse de Soubise), Mademoiselle de Ludres
and Marie Angelique de Fontanges.
The latter drove Athenais into a
frenzy and in her fury she
accused Madame de Maintenon of planning her
downfall.
Marie Angelique de Fontanges gave birth to a still-born child
while she herself was seriously
ill. Shortly afterwards the police
arrested a number of people
accused of poisoning. The inquiry that
followed took a long time
and suddenly ordered the arrest of six
ladies from the Court. Two
of them disappeared to the Netherlands
which created an impression
of guilt. The main suspect was known as
Madame La Voisin, who told
fortunes and provided love-potions. Madame
La Voisin was found guilty
and executed, after which her daughter gave
evidence and implicated
Athenais de Montespan.
Her accusations were very serious as apparently black masses, love
potions and spells involved
the king and were repeated several times.
It also appeared that Athenais
had supplied the king with aphrodisiacs
without his knowledge and
had tried to poison Mademoiselle de
Fontanges.
While these investigations took place, the king received verbatim
reports which, after reading,
he burned. Even though La Voisin's
daughter had never actually
seen Athenais, she was believed. Louis
XIV, as a God-fearing man,
was shocked and their affaire was over. As
he was not vindictive he
did not want to have the mother of his
legitimised children appear
in court and allowed her to remain at
court. The one thing that
changed was the sexual habits of Louis XIV.
Francoise d'Aubigne,
Madame de Maintenon, who was three years older
than the king, had intrigued
the king already for a long time, and
after a while, he married
her secretly. Athenais lived for many more
years and in old age her
hair became a beautiful snow-white. The
thought of death frightened
her so much that she paid several women to
sit in her room at night
with candles lit and the curtains drawn so
that, if she woke up, she
would be reassured by seeing them playing
cards or eating.
Louis Auguste de Bourbon
Duc de Maine et d'Aumale, (1670-1736)
He was a timid, gentle, rather mild young man, brought up by
Madame de Maintenon to be pious
and obedient. He was no warrior.
Lacking the confidence to
command troops, he had revealed himself as
embarrassingly inept on
the field of battle, where, ordered to attack
by the Marechal de Villeroi,
he hesitated, dithered and allowed the
enemy army to escape.
Nevertheless Maine, the apple of Madame de Maintenon's eye, was
heaped with honours and
privileges. His cousin, the Duke of Chartres
and the future Duke of Orleans
and Regent of France, regarded him dull
and untrustworthy, pretended
not to care being passed over by Louis
XIV.
On 19 March 1692 in Versailles, he married Anne Louise Benedicte
de Bourbon-Conde, Mademoiselle
de Charolais, and they became the
parents of seven children.
Philippe II
Duke of Orleans, Regent of France 1715-1723, (1674-1723)
When
as a young boy he was asked whether he liked beautiful
clothes, he answered: "I
like them more than Madame (his mother) but
not as much as Monsieur
(his father)". Philippe grew up without
religion and felt contempt
for the Church and every other kind of
authority. He acted, sang,
painted, distilled perfumes, and composed,
but was never interested
in any subject for very long. He became
debauched and gave orgiastic
suppers which included nude girls served
in silver dishes. Later
in life he was rumoured to have had an
incestuous affair with one
of his own daughters. He loved women, but
none more than his remarkable
mother; and it was to her that he
uttered the famous rebuke
when she complained that he chose such ugly
mistresses: "Bah! Mama,
all cats look grey in the dark!"
He was forced to marry his first cousin, an illegitimate daughter
of Louis XIV. On receiving
this news his mother became hysterical and,
apparently in front of the
Court, slapped his face. However Louis XIV
celebrated their wedding
in magnificent fashion.
In 1701 he had an affaire with one of his mother's attendants as
well having both his wife
and an actress pregnant at the same time.
When he went to Paris to
visit both new mothers, his wife complained
to her father, Louis XIV,
who passed on this complaint to his brother,
Philippe's father. However,
the latter merely pointed out to the king
that he should be the last
to complain, and reminding him of his own
early days when he went
to Flanders and travelled in the same coach as
his wife and both Madames
de La Valliere and Montespan, both mothers
of the king's illegitimate
children. Louis XIV was furious as his
brother also pointed out
that his son had been forced into his
marriage by promises the
king had not kept. Later that night Philippe
sent a message to the king
that his father was seriously ill but,
still angry, Louis XIV went
to bed. Only after another message was
sent did Louis XIV go to
see his brother but found him unconscious,
and soon afterwards the
Duc d'Orleans died. Louis XIV felt guilty as
he had always been close
to his brother; and so he told his nephew and
son-in-law Philippe, now
the new Duc d'Orleans, to regard him as his
father.
In 1711 the king's only legitimate son died and, to the surprise
of the Duc de Saint Simon,
the Duc d'Orleans burst into tears. Even
though the Dauphin and Philippe
had been estranged for a long time,
Philippe nevertheless regarded
the Dauphin as a good man he had known
all his life; and although
his sadness would not last for very long,
he did grieve for his cousin.
When Louis XIV's heir and great-grandson died in 1712, it was said
that Philippe had not only
poisoned the little boy but also the Duc de
Berry as this could make
him the next French king. However, knowing
his nephew, Louis XIV took
no notice of these rumours.
In 1714 Louis XIV drew up a will intended to prevent the Duc
d'Orleans from becoming
Regent after his own death. He also created a
Council of fourteen noblemen
with Orleans as its president. However,on
his deathbed Louis XIV asked
Orleans to serve the future Louis XV as
loyally as he had served
himself. Then he announced, "my nephew shall
rule our country" so that
nothing came of the Council.
As Regent Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, although dissolute in his
private life, was intelligent
and cultured. He was also greatly
influenced by Cardinal Dubois
and in 1718 backed the Scottish banker
John Law. However, this
venture collapsed in 1720, ruining many
people. When Louis XV came
of age in February 1723, he was asked to
continue as the king's chief
minister; but on 2 December 1723, while
visiting his mistress, the
Duchesse de Falari, Philippe suddenly died.
Francoise Marie de Bourbon
Mademoiselle de Blois, (1677-1749)
She has been described as the incarnation of pride and laziness,
and was nicknamed "Lucifer".
Despite being illegitimate she regarded
herself a "Daughter of France"
and did her cousin, a "Grandson of
France", an honour by marrying
him. She was pretty and witty and,
although in the first few
years she allowed her husband his
mistresses, she was too
lazy to take a lover herself, which prevented
her from becoming the subject
of the usual gossip. Later on her pride
alienated her from her husband
and, according to her mother-in-law,
she became drunk three or
four times a week.
She outlived all her children except for her son and the Duchess
of Modena. D'Argenson said
she was very like her mother, Madame de
Montespan, but also had
Louis XIV's orderly mind with his failings of
injustice and harshness.
She ruled the Palais-Royal until her death in
1749 at the age of seventy-two.
Louis Armand II de Bourbon
Prince de Conti, (1695-1727)
The only surviving son of
Francois Louis, Prince de Conti so disliked
by Louis XIV, he was nevertheless
treated with great liberality by
this king. He served under
Marshal Villars in the War of the Spanish
Succession, although he
lacked the soldierly qualities of his father.
As a prominent supporter
of the financial schemes of John Law, he made
large sums of money.
Princess Marie Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans
(1695-1719)
As a little girl when seriously ill, it was her father who
nursed her and as a result
she became and remained his most beloved
child. In 1709, when she
was only fourteen, the Duchess of Bourbon
started the rumour that
Marie Louise was having an incestuous
relationship with her father.
However, her prospects of marrying Louis XIV's grandson, the Duc
de Berry, were used to force
her father to give up his mistress,
Madame d'Argenton. The Duchess
of Bourbon offered her daugther who was
of the same age and equally
attractive. However, Louis XIV ignored the
wishes of the people concerned
and decided that precedence should
prevail and, as the Duke
of Orleans was closer to the throne than the
Duke of Bourbon, Marie Louise
married the Duke of Berry.
Having been placed in prominence too young, her behaviour became
embarrassing. Her grandmother
recorded how: "all of a sudden the
duchesse de Berry fainted
dead away; we thought it was a stroke, but
after Madame la duchesse
de Bourgogne poured vinegar into her face she
came to again. Then she
had a horrendous fit of vomitting; nor is this
surprising, for in the theatre
she had continually stuffed herself for
two hours with all kinds
of filth, caramel peaches, chestnuts, a paste
of gooseberries and currants,
dried cherries, and lots of lemonade
with it, then at supper
she ate fish and drank on top of that. So she
felt sick, and when she
wanted to hold it in, she fainted. Today she
is hale and hearty again,
but one of these days she will make herself
really ill with gluttony,
for she will not listen to any admonitions."
In July 1711 she was three months pregnant and, even though her
doctor advised against it,
the king demanded she make the annual
journey to Fontainebleau.
He allowed her to make the journey by boat
but then disaster struck.
The boat almost hit the bridge at Melun and
her party barely escaped
drowning. Exhausted, she arrived at two in
the morning; four days later
she miscarried. No-one felt sorry for
her, least of all her grand-mother
who wrote: "The misfortune of
Madame de Berry has not
upset me after all she is all right---and the
child was only a girl."
She was the black sheep of the family and Madame de Maintenon,
with malicious pleasure,
asked Marie Louise's grandmother to lecture
her on her behaviour. Madame
d'Orleans did so with enthusiasm. In 1713
she gave birth prematurely
to a son which died in infancy; in the same
year she also grew away
from her father.
In 1714, when again pregnant, her husband fell ill at Marly with
a violent fever. He was
bled and given an emetic but the next day he
had difficulty breathing.
His condition worsened quickly and he died
at four in the morning of
4 May 1714, in his twenty-eight year. It was
thought that he had probably
ruptured his stomach muscles on the
pommel of his saddle, when
falling from a horse. In June she
miscarried.
When her father became Regent of France, she started to draw
attention to herself and
even in the Comedie demanded that the actors
salute her before the performance.
There was such an outcry that she
stopped going to the Comedie.
More disturbing than any of her follies
was her preoccupation with
a new lover, Armand de Rions. The Duke de
Saint-Simon described him
as "a short chubby young man covered in
pimples who, with his green
and yellow complexion, looked rather like
a walking abscess."
When she bought a pretty house, Chateau de La Muette, in the
Bois de Boulogne, the Parisians
were delighted to see her go. Madame
de Clermont, her lady-in-waiting,
became so frustrated by her antics
that she resigned her post.
Some time later Marie Louise, seeing
Madame de Clermont at the
Opera, demanded that she leave immediately.
Madame de Clermont did so
with dignity: "I shall leave; I am delighted
once again to have an opportunity
to show Madame de Berry my
submission and my obedience."
There was an uproar and six weeks later
the duchesse was compelled
to apologise to Madame de Clermont.
However, she enjoyed herself and at her father's supper parties
she laughed and drank as
the men did; they called her 'Princess
chubby'. She lost her self-control
and, besotted by her lover, became
pregnant. However, when
giving birth to a still-born daughter, her
health was fatally undermined.
Disgraced by her father, she was unable
to prevent her father from
ordering Rion to report to his regiment
immediately. When she threatened
to marry Rions, the scenes with her
father grew violent and
in the end Rions was sent away to fight in the
war against Spain.
The Duchess, trying to make amends and very frightened, gave her
father a supper party on
the terrace at Meudon. However, it was not a
success and she caught a
chill from the night air. Wrapped in
blankets, she was taken
to La Muette. Almost twenty-four years old,
she died at midnight on
21 July 1719.
Princess Charlotte Aglae d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Valois, (1700-1761)
At age eighteen she was described as "very pretty, if rather
plump, a lively brunette
with sparkling eyes." Her grandmother,
impossible to please, deplored
"her huge hawk's nose which has spoiled
everything. I can guess
what happened---she must have been allowed to
take snuff, and that made
her nose grow."
Her grandmother, the widowed Duchess of Orleans, regarded most of
her grandchildren with a
jaundiced eye, but took a particular dislike
to this girl: "she does
not have a kind character, cares nothing for
her mother and little for
her father, except that she wants to rule
him. Me she hates like the
Devil and also hates all of her sisters.
She is deceitful in all
things, often contemptuous of the truth, and
dreadfully coquettish withal.
In short, this girl is sure to bring us
unhappiness. I wish she
were already married and living in a faraway
country, so that we would
not to have to hear more about her."
At the time her grandmother wrote this, Charlotte was in the
throes of a wild infatuation
with the dashing young Duc de Richelieu
who, at age twenty-two,
was already an experienced seducer, and who
all his life enjoyed ruining
the lives of the women he seduced.
Aged nineteen, on 21 June 1720 in Modena, she married Francesco
III, Duke of Modena. However,
in 1728 with her husband she fled to
Genoa and, in 1733, returned
to France. There, however, she found
herself unwelcome; her mother,
who had never liked her, was cold; her
closest friend in the family
was her illegitimate half-brother, the
Chevalier d'Orleans.
In 1739 she reluctantly returned to Modena which for a few years
she made rather fashionable.
But in 1743 she returned to Paris with
her daughter. She was now
a stout, red-faced woman, looking rather
like her father. She lived
on the Rue de Grenelle in the Faubourg
Saint-Germain and was a
friend of the King's mistress, Madame de
Chateauroux.
She intrigued successfully to marry her daughter fo the richest
man in France, the Duke
of Penthievre. But her influence at court
ended with the arrival of
Madame de Pompadour in 1745. She then
returned to Italy, and led
a wandering life, dying in 1761.
Louis I
Duke of Orleans, (1703-1752)
He married a Princess of
Baden but when she died, in 1726, he became
more and more reclusive
and pious. He retired in 1740 to the abbey of
Sainte-Genevieve in Paris
where he died in 1752.
Luis I
King of Spain 1724-1724, (1707-1724)
Born
25 August 1707, he was the eldest son of King Felipe V of
Spain. At Lerma on 20 January
1722 when only fourteen years old, as
Prince of Asturias he married
Louise Elisabeth, Princess of Orleans,
and a granddaughter of King
Louis XIV of France, aged only thirteen.
His father still entertained the hope of becoming King of France.
Since 1715 King Louis XV,
only a child, had been king and if he died
his uncle, King Felipe V
of Spain, should have been in line had he not
renounced his rights when
he became King of Spain. To overcome this
obstacle, he abdicated in
January 1724 in favour of Luis, who now
became King Luis I of Spain
at seventeen.
Luis was a young man of great promise and, according to the Duke
of Liria, was "endowed with
every kind of virtue and good quality. He
carried out all his duties
to perfection; he spoke French, Spanish,
Italian and Latin excellently;
loved justice and virtue and hated
vice---and would have made
a model monarch."
After a reign of seven months and sixteen days, King Luis I died
of smallpox so that his
father became King of Spain once more.
Princess Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans
Mademoiselle de Montpensier, (1709-1742)
One
of the unruly daughters of Philippe, Duke of Orleans and
Regent of France, her grandmother
described her as 'the most
disagreeable person that
I have ever seen'.
Nevertheless, when only thirteen years old, she married the
fourteen-year-old Prince
of Asturias and heir to the King of Spain.
After the wedding ceremony
festivities were over and the Duke of
Saint-Simon was ready to
return to France, he said his goodbye to the
new Princess of Asturias.
When he asked her if she wanted him to take
a message back to her family
in France, she merely looked at him and
belched loudly into his
face.
Later she scandalised the Spanish court by hoisting her petticoats
up to her knees and walking
about in the rain. She was also seen
running about the gardens
of La Granja clad only in a thin
dressing-gown which, blowing
up in the wind, revealed her to be quite
naked. She was peevish and
sulky with her husband, refusing to speak
to him, and it was commonly
believed that she had refused to
consummate their marriage.
Become immensely stout, she indulged her
gluttonous appetite at all
hours, forcing her ladies-in-waiting to do
the same, and pinching and
slapping them if they refused.
Things eventually became so scandalous that her father-in-law
confined her in the Alcazar
of Madrid for six days until she promised
to mend her ways. In 1724
her father-in-law abdicated and her husband
became King Luis I of Spain.
However, he died of smallpox a little
over seven months later
and at fourteen she was Dowager-Queen of
Spain.
Sent back to France, she held a little court at Vincennes where
there were odd goings-on.
'She was fat, gluttonous, ate with both
hands; she never reads or
works, seldom plays cards, and cuts her hair
like an English schoolboy.'
She died in Paris in 1742 aged
thirty-three.
Louis Joseph de Bourbon
Prince de Conde, (1736-1818)
In 1740 his father died and, in consequence, though aged only
four, he became Prince de
Conde. In 1753 he married Charlotte de
Rohan-Soubise and they became
the parents of three children. Brought
up for army service, he
served with distinction in the Seven Years'
War.
After the fall of the Bastille in 1789, he was one of the first
princes to emigrate. In
1791 while living in Worms, he raised the
emigre "Conde Army" which
took part without much effect in the
anti-revolutionary campaigns
of 1792-1796. After the Franco-Austrian
peace of 1797, Conde went
to Russia, serving with the Russians in
1799; then, in 1800, he
went to Austria and, in 1801, to England.
In 1814 he returned to France and four years later died in Paris.
Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St.Aubin
Madame de Genlis, (1746-1830)
At sixteen she was married
to the Comte de Genlis and in 1770 made
lady-in-waiting to the Duchesse
de Chartres. Later she became mistress
to the Duchess's husband,
who by then was Duke of Orleans, as well as
governess of the Orleans
children which included the future King Louis
Philippe. She wrote four
volumes of short plays, nearly a hundred
volumes of historical romances
and, in 1825, her "Memoires".
Grace Dalrymple (-1823)
When she married John Elliot
of Peebles, she was described as "a young
beauty". Later on she was
referred to as "Dolly the Tall". However, in
1774, only three years after
her marriage, her husband divorced her on
grounds of 'criminal connection'
with Viscount Valentia, the future
1st Earl of Mountmorris.
John Elliot received ś12,000,- as damages
and, in 1778, was made a
Baronet. Grace remained known as Mrs. Elliot
and her name was not only
connected with that of Philippe Egalite but
also with the Prince Regent
who was reputed to be the father of her
daughter.
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