Marie Anne de Bourbon

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Portrait of Marie Annes de Bourbon by François de Troy , around 1690
Portrait of Marie Anne as princesse douairière de Conti by Hyacinthe Rigaud , 1706

Marie Anne de Bourbon (born October 2, 1666 in Vincennes Castle ; † May 3, 1739 in Paris ), also known as the first Mademoiselle de Blois , was the only illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Louise de La Vallière . By marrying Louis Armand I. de Bourbon, prince de Conti , she became Princess of Conti in 1680 .

Life

Like all of Louises de La Vallière's children, Marie Anne was taken from her mother after birth and entrusted to Jean-Baptiste Colbert's wife , Marie Charon de Ménars. She took care of the upbringing of the girl who is not only considered the most beautiful daughter of Louis XIV, but also his favorite daughter. She was officially recognized by her father in a certificate from March 1667 and accepted into the royal family.

At the age of 13, Marie Anne married 19-year-old Louis Armand I de Bourbon, prince de Conti , on January 16, 1680 in the Saint-Louis chapel of the Saint-Germain-en-Laye castle , making her the first illegitimate king's child who was married to a prince of blood . The great Condé (French: le grand Condé ) himself had asked Louise de La Vallière for her daughter's hand for his nephew. On the occasion of the wedding, which was celebrated with great pomp, the king granted his daughter the unusually high dowry of one million livres tournois , because William III. , the Prince of Orange , and Viktor Amadeus II , Duke of Savoy , thankfully refused to marry Marie Anne.

After an allegedly catastrophic wedding night, the couple remained childless. The newly crowned Princess von Conti told her husband that she was immensely disappointed in him and henceforth gave her favor to his younger brother François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti . When Marie Anne's younger brother Louis died in 1683, his sister inherited all of its assets, including land, 200,000  Écu and later Hôtel de Conti called city palace in Versailles . In 1685 Marie Anne contracted smallpox . She survived the disease, but her husband succumbed to her a little later on November 9, 1685. After only five years of marriage, she became a widow at the age of 19, Marie Anne did not remarry and was henceforth called princesse douairière de Conti . In her mid-20s she was the perfect image of her mother and indulged in numerous affairs with young officers.

In 1713, Marie Anne acquired the Hôtel de Lorge in Paris and moved there from Versailles after the death of her father. In 1716 she added the Choisy Castle to her property before purchasing the Champs-sur-Marne Castle in 1718 to give it to her cousin, Charles François de La Baume Le Blanc, marquis de La Vallière.

Throughout her life, Marie Anne got on only moderately well with her younger half-sisters Louise Françoise and Françoise Marie from the king's relationship with Madame de Montespan , as all of the daughters were jealous of their relationship with Louis XIV. She died of a brain tumor in 1739 at the age of 72 and was buried in the Paris church of Saint-Roch .

literature

  • Antonia Fraser: Love and Louis XIV. The women in the life of the Sun King . Talese / Doubleday, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-385-50984-8 , pp. 123-124, 133-134, 176-177, 224-226, 336, 384.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simone Bertiere: Les Reines de France au temps des Bourbons. Volume 2: Les Femmes du Roi-Soleil. Édition de Fallois, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2-253-14712-1 , p. 448.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Anaïs Geeraert: Marie-Anne, Mademoiselle de Blois , accessed on August 27, 2011.
  3. ^ A b René de Belleval: Les Bâtards de la maison de France . Vivien, Paris 1901, p. 206 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Simone Bertiere: Les Reines de France au temps des Bourbons. Volume 2: Les Femmes du Roi-Soleil. Édition de Fallois, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2-253-14712-1 , pp. 215-216.
  5. ^ Musée d'art et d'histoire Louis Senlecq: Les trésors des princes de Bourbon Conti . Somogy, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-85056-398-6 , p. 154.
  6. ↑ Simone Bertiere: Les Reines de France au temps des Bourbons. Volume 2: Les Femmes du Roi-Soleil. Édition de Fallois, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2-253-14712-1 , p. 457.
  7. ^ Pierre Narbonne: Journal des règnes de Louis XIV et Louis XV. De l'année 1701 à l'année 1744 . Durand, Paris 1866, p. 105 ( online ).
  8. ^ Sylvia Jurewitz-Freischmidt: Galantes Versailles. The mistresses at the court of the Bourbons . Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-24494-7 , p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Bourbon, Marie Anne de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES First Mademoiselle de Blois, Princesse douairière de Conti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION by marriage to Princess von Conti
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Vincennes Castle
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1739
Place of death Paris