Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon

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Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon
Légitimée de France Mademoiselle de Tours
Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan

Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Mademoiselle de Tours (Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, 18 November 1674 – Bourbon, 15 September 1681) was the illegitimate daughter of

. She died in early childhood.

Biography

Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 18 November 1674. She was the couple's third daughter and their fifth child. She was legitimised by her father Louis XIV in January 1676 at the age of almost two. Her parents affectionately dubbed her Toutou after her title.

After her birth, her care was entrusted into the hands of

who had taken care of her older siblings in a house bought for them by their father on the Rue de Vaugirard, then in the suburbs of Paris. Known as Louise Marie, she was born after the official separation of Madame de Montespan and her legal husband.

After her legitimisation in 1676, she gained the style of Mademoiselle de Tours from the town of

. The latter two were made legitimate in November 1681.

She was known as Mademoiselle de Tours until her premature death in 1681, at the age of six.

She died at Bourbon-l'Archambault. Her father, who was at Fontainebleau, ordered that his beloved daughter be buried at the tomb of the Dukes of Bourbon.

After her death, writing to the

, her mother said:

I do not speak to you of my grief, you are naturally too good not to have experienced it for yourself. As for

Madame la Dauphine.

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