Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1757–1824)

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Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (5 October 1757 – 10 March 1824) was a French

Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Condé
, named after her.

Early life

Born at the

princesse du sang; this entitled her to the style of Her Serene Highness. She was educated at the Pentemont Abbey, one of Paris' most prestigious schools for daughters of the aristocracy.[1]

At court, she was known as Mademoiselle de Condé and in some sources is styled as princesse de Condé. A descendant of

le Grand Condé, Louise Adelaïde was the aunt of the last duc d'Enghien. She was also a second cousin of the future revolutionary, Philippe Égalité. A first cousin was the Charles Alain, Prince of Guéméné, son of her aunt Victoire de Rohan
, princesse de Guéméné.

Her mother died at the Hôtel de Condé after a long illness[2] as reported by the Duke of Luynes; at the time, Louise Adélaïde was just three years of age. As a result, Louise Adélaïde was raised by her great-aunt, Henriette Louise de Bourbon (1703–1772), the Benedictine abbess of the Beaumont Abbey (now in Tours).[3]

Abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours

Louise Adélaïde was supposed to marry her distant cousin

Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy and eventually became King Charles X of France during the Bourbon Restoration
.

Due to her convent education, almost all of Louise Adélaïde's youth was spent in a religious setting. Her education was completed at the royal abbey of

Abbess of Remiremont. She did not, however, visit Remiremont more than three times during her period in office[4]

Last years and death

In 1789, she fled to Belgium to escape the first stages of the French Revolution. In 1802, in Poland, she took the veil, returning to Paris in 1816 to found a religious institution. She was later the Lady of Saint Pierre and Metz and Cetera, lordships she held in her own right. Her father died in 1818. Louise Adélaïde died quietly in Paris six years later, in 1824. Six months after her death, her former suitor, the comte d'Artois, succeeded to the French throne as King Charles X.

She was buried at the Abbaye Saint-Louis de Limon, Vauhallan.

Ancestry

References and notes

  1. ^ a b Louis Chaigne, Les Bénédictines de la rue Monsieur, F.-X. Le Roux editions, Strasbourg-Paris, 1950, p. 13 sqq
  2. ^ d'Albert de Luynes, Marie Charles Louis (1857). Chronique de le régence et du regne de Louis XV p.238. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  3. ^ Base Mérimée: Abbaye de Bénédictines Notre-Dame dite Abbaye de Beaumont, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  4. ^ "Women in power 1770-1800". www.guide2womenleaders.com.
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