Marie-Thérèse of France (1667–1672)
Marie-Thérèse of France (born January 2, 1667 in the castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ; † March 1, 1672 ibid) was the fourth child and third daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his wife Marie-Thérèse ( an Infanta of Spain). Little Marie-Thérèse was princess of France and Navarre . Her two older sisters had already died in infancy a few weeks after birth, and as the eldest daughter of the king she was addressed at court with the traditional honorary title of Madame Royale .
Life
Marie-Thérèse of France was born on January 2, 1667 in the castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Her parents had the girl baptized in the Louvre in 1668. Her mother would have liked to see Marie-Thérèse as queen of her native Spain.
As the "daughter of France", Marie-Thérèse was called Her Royal Highness of France . She was also known as "Madame La Petite" to distinguish her from her aunts, the wives of her uncle Philip I, Duke of Orléans , who were known as "first Madame" ( Henrietta Anne Stuart , † 1670) and "second Madame" ( Liselotte von der Pfalz , † 1722) became known.
The five-year-old princess died on March 1, 1672 of complications from tuberculosis in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Castle. Her heart was buried in the church of the monastery of Val-de-Grâce in Paris, her body in the crypt of the Bourbons in the cathedral of Saint-Denis . During the French Revolution , the grave was desecrated in the course of the looting of the royal tombs of Saint-Denis in the years 1793-94 and the remains of the little princess were like those of 46 Franconian and French kings, 32 queens and 91 other people in one of thrown two mass graves.
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| SURNAME | Marie-Thérèse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marie-Thérèse of France |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of France and Navarre |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1667 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Germain-en-Laye Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1672 |
| Place of death | Saint-Germain-en-Laye Castle |