Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé

Portrait of Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon

Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon (* December 22, 1690 in Versailles , † August 28, 1760 in Villejuif ), called Mademoiselle de Bourbon in her youth , was Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs from 1723 until her death .

She was the first child of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé , and Louise Françoise de Bourbon , a daughter of the French King Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Montespan . At the age of 15 she entered Fontevrault Abbey on May 20, 1706 and made profession about a year later on May 26, 1707 . In October 1719 she was offered to become abbess of Maubuisson , but she resigned this office to become abbess of the monastery of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs in Paris on May 9, 1723.

Louis XV In April 1742, she sent her to the Notre-Dame de La Saussaye monastery near Villejuif for various offenses , but without removing her from her position as abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs. Marie Anne Gabrielle Éléonore died at the age of 69 in Notre-Dame de La Saussaye and was buried on September 3, 1760 in the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs.

literature

Henri Lemoin: Madame de Bourbon, Abbesse de Saint-Antoine. Son emprisonnement à La Saussaye-les-Villejuif. In: Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France (ed.): Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France 1935. Hervé Champion, Paris 1935, Pp. 140-144 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Marc Ellenberger: Madame de Bourbon, une princesse emprisonnée au monastère de La Saussaye ( Memento of December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Armand Parrot: Mémorial des abesses de Fontevrault issues de la maison royale de France, accompagné de notes historiques et archéologiques. Lachèse & Dolbeau, Angers 1880, p. 114, note 2 ( digitized version ).
↑ ^a ^b Marc Ellenberger: Madame de Bourbon, une princesse emprisonnée au monastère de La Saussaye ( Memento of December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Bourbon-Condé, Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bourbon, Marie Anne Gabrielle Éléonore de; Bourbon, Marie Anne de; Bourbon, Gabrielle Éléonore de (nickname); Bourbon, Mademoiselle de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French abbess
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH	Versailles
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1760
Place of death	Villejuif

[parrot114-1] A ^b Armand Parrot: Mémorial des abesses de Fontevrault issues de la maison royale de France, accompagné de notes historiques et archéologiques. Lachèse & Dolbeau, Angers 1880, p. 114, note 2 ( digitized version ).

[ellenberger-2] Marc Ellenberger: Madame de Bourbon, une princesse emprisonnée au monastère de La Saussaye ( Memento of December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )