Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752)
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Abbaye de Sainte Geneviève, Paris, France | |
Burial | , Paris, France |
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House | Orléans |
Father | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans |
Mother | Françoise Marie de Bourbon |
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Louis, Duke of Orléans (4 August 1703 – 4 February 1752) was a member of the
Early years
Louis
He was brought up by his mother and his grandmother,
Louis was very close to his younger sister
Regency
Upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis XIV in 1715, his father, the former king’s nephew, was selected to be the regent of the country for the five-year-old new king,
In 1720, he became Grand Master of the Order of Saint-Lazare and Jerusalem. In 1721, under his father's influence, he was named Colonel général de l'Infanterie, and post he held until 1730.
Duke of Orléans
Upon the death of his father on 2 December 1723, the twenty-year-old Louis assumed the hereditary title of
In 1723, the Orléans household was conspicuous for his hostility to the former prime minister, Cardinal Dubois. The Orléans also worked with Claude le Blanc and Nicolas Prosper Bauyn d'Angervilliers in the post of Secretary of State for War; Louis himself worked in this position from 1723 to 1730.
Marriage
The fifth child and only son out of eight children, he was still not married at the death of his father. In 1721, the ambassador of France to Russia suggested a marriage between him and one of the two unmarried daughters of
Another possible bride that was considered for him was his first cousin
In 1723, a German princess was suggested. She was
The ducal couple had two children, but only one survived infancy.
Later life
On 5 September 1725, the court celebrated the marriage of
The following year, on 8 August 1726, the duke's young wife died three days after the birth of her second child, Louise Marie, at the Palais-Royal in Paris. After the early death of his wife, and until his own death in 1752, Louis lived by strict rules.[clarification needed]
His aunt, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine, proposed her two daughters Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine[7] and Anne Charlotte de Lorraine as possible wives; Louis refused outright.
In 1730,
His son,
On 17 December 1743, his son married
Louis Philippe d'Orléans would see the birth of his grandchildren Louis Philippe and Bathilde, who, during the French Revolution of 1789, would be known respectively as Philippe Égalité and Citoyenne Vérité. Because of the scandalous behaviour of their mother, he refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of his grandchildren.
In 1749, his mother died; he soon died in 1752, at the age of forty-eight, at the
He was buried at the Val-de-Grâce in Paris.
Legacy
Louis was praised as a very charitable man; in Versailles, the now destroyed College d'Orléans, was named after him due to his generous patronage of the college's construction.[14] He also remodelled the gardens at the Palais-Royal as well as the Orléans country residence, the Château de Saint-Cloud (c. 1735). Louis was also praised for giving generous financial aid to victims of floods in the Loire in 1731, and again in 1740.
Issue
Name | Portrait | Lifespan | Notes | |
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Louis Philippe d'Orléans Duke of Orléans |
12 May 1725 – 18 November 1785 |
Born at Versailles, he was titled Duke of Chartres (duc de Chartres) at birth; became Duke of Orléans (duc d'Orléans) upon his father's death in 1752; married Louise Henriette de Bourbon in 1743 and had issue; | ||
Louise Marie d'Orléans Mademoiselle |
5 August 1726 – 14 May 1728 |
Born at the Palais Royal, she was known as Mademoiselle till her early death at Saint Cloud |
Ancestors
Ancestors of Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752) Diane de Grandseigne | |||||||||||||
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References
- ^ Gordien, Marie-Estelle, Louis d'Orléans (1703–1752), premier prince du sang et mystique érudit. Thèses de l'École nationale des chartes, France (2002).
- ^ Marie-Estelle Gordien (2002). "Louis d'Orléans (1703–1752), premier prince du sang et mystique érudit". Retrieved October 20, 2011.
- ^ Antoine de Nadaillac, Généalogie et Dynasties Européennes: La Dynastie des Capétiens: La Maison d'Orléans: "Maison d'Orléans". Archived from the original on 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
- ^ ib. de Nadaillac, Antoine Archived 2008-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Claude Dufresne, Les Orléans, Critérion, Paris, 1991, chapter Un prince par trop dévot, p. 181.
- ^ Ferdinand), Hoefer (M , Jean Chrétien (1862). Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours: Nic-Oze (in French). Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie.
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- ^ in French: http://www.pierre-abelard.com/itin-Genevieve.htm
- ^ Member of the Saint Genevieve congregation (of the Augustine order), from the Latin Genovefa: Genevieve. Saint Genevieve is the patron saint of Paris.
- ^ ib. Dufresne, pp. 177-188.
- ^ ib. Dufresne, chapter: Un "bon gros prince", pp. 189 & 192.
- ^ ib. Dufresne, chapter Un "bon gros prince", p. 191-195.
- ^ ib. Firmin Didot Frères, Nouvelle biographie générale..., p. 823-824.
- ^ Louis was a great believer of education in the country.
- ^ For ancestors up to #15: Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 89.
Sources
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Orleans, Louis, Duke of (1703-1752)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 284. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Firmin Didot Frères, Paris, 1862, Tome 38.
- Dufresne, Claude, Les Orléans, Critérion, Paris, 1991.
- Gordien, Marie-Estelle, Louis d'Orléans (1703–1752), premier prince du sang et mystique érudit, Thèse Sorbonne, 2002.