Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741)
Marie Anne de Bourbon | |
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Mademoiselle de Clermont | |
Hôtel du Petit Luxembourg , Paris, France | |
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Father | Louise-Françoise de Bourbon |
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Marie Anne de Bourbon (16 October 1697 – 11 August 1741)
Biography
The fourth daughter and the fifth child of her parents, she shared her name with her eldest sister, Marie Anne Éléonore. She was born at the Hôtel de Condé in Paris and was baptised there on 29 August 1700. Marie Anne also shared her name with an aunt, Marie Anne, who became the Duchess of Vendôme after her marriage to Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme in 1710.
Marie Anne was said to have been the fruit of her mother's affair with François Louis, Prince of Conti. Her mother, who had an amorous nature, had been having an affair with the prince in the time leading up to the birth of Marie Anne. François Louis's wife, Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, was the sister of Marie-Anne's mother's husband. Together, the Conti couple had been the titular monarchs of Poland during the year of Marie Anne's birth.
Her first cousin,
Marie Anne secretly married her lover, the
In 1725, she became Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine of the new Polish-born queen, Maria Leszczyńska. She was secured this post thanks to her brother Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon who had helped secure the marriage of Maria Leszczyńska to Louis XV. At the death of her cousin Louise Diane d'Orléans in 1736 after a difficult childbirth (the child was a stillborn), Marie Anne was asked to go to the Château d'Issy to represent the Queen in honour of Louise Diane's early death.[4]
Marie Anne held her post until her death in 1741. She died of
Her portrait en Sultane, by Jean-Marc Nattier (1733), "justifying her chic state of undress"[7] (Wallace Collection, London) is a famous example of turquerie.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Marie Anne de Bourbon Madame de Montespan | | |||||||||||||||
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30. Jean de Grandseigne, marquis de Marsillac | ||||||||||||||||
15. Diane de Grandseigne | ||||||||||||||||
31. Catherine de La Béraudière, dame de Villenon | ||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ Dates
- ^ E. de Barthélémy (ed.), Gazette de la Régence. Janvier 1715-1719, Paris, 1887, p.68
- Mme de Genlis' brief nouvelle historique, Mademoiselle de Clermont (1802).
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/unrulydaughtersr00willrich/unrulydaughtersr00willrich_djvu.txt [bare URL plain text file]
- ^ Old home of her paternal grandmother Anne Henriette of Bavaria
- ^ "2 - Une histoire des familles Condé et Conti". Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ Jo Hedley, in The Wallace Collection, 2005:148.
- ^ 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. 44.