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Louise Diane d'Orléans (27 June 1716 – 26 September 1736) was
Princess of Conti The title of Princess of Conti was a French Nobility, noble title, held by the wife of the Prince of Conti between 1582 and 1803 with an intermission between 1614 and 1654. Princesses of Conti First Creation Second Creation Notes

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from her marriage to Prince Louis François in 1732, until her death in childbirth. She was the youngest child of
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), who was known as the Regent, was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred to i ...
and
Françoise Marie de Bourbon Françoise Marie de Bourbon (''Légitimée de France''; 4 May 1677 1 February 1749) was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV, Louis XIV of France and his ''maîtresse-en-titre'', Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise ...
, the youngest legitimised daughter of King
Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
and his mistress
Madame de Montespan Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (), was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre, royal mistress of King Lou ...
. She was born while her father was the
regent In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...
for
Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defi ...
. Some sources referred to her as ''Louis Diane''.


Biography

Louise Diane d'Orléans was born in the Palais-Royal, the Paris residence of the
House of Orléans The 4th House of Orléans (), sometimes called the House of Bourbon-Orléans () to distinguish it, is the fourth holder of a surname previously used by several branches of the House of France, Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimat ...
, on 27 June 1716 as the youngest child of the
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), who was known as the Regent, was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred to i ...
and
Françoise Marie de Bourbon Françoise Marie de Bourbon (''Légitimée de France''; 4 May 1677 1 February 1749) was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV, Louis XIV of France and his ''maîtresse-en-titre'', Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise ...
. Until her marriage, Louise was known as ''Mademoiselle de Chartres''. The style of ''Mademoiselle de Chartres'' had been used by her elder sister Adélaïde, who, by the time of Louise Diane's birth, was a nun at Chelles. Her aunt
Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Empress Elisabeth (disambiguation), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth'' * Princess Elizabeth ...
also used the title. Louise, who grew up with her older sister Élisabeth, received a religious education. Her sister would later become the queen of Spain as the wife of Louis I of Spain. Louise grew up in an era when her father, known as ''Philippe d'Orléans'', or simply ''le Régent'', was the '' de facto'' ruler of France, as he had been in charge of the affairs of the state since the death of Louise's maternal grandfather King
Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
. The Palais-Royal was where the régent held his court and lived openly with his mistress Marie Thérèse de Parabère. Her mother later acquired the Château de Bagnolet, where she lived quietly and without scandal. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a '' princesse du sang''. As her
mother A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ges ...
, by then the
Duchess of Orléans Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of Royal family, royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobi ...
, was illegitimate by birth, Louise, like her siblings, was not a '' petite-fille de France''. In her youth, she was said to have been a very sensitive child and would grow up to be one of the more beautiful of the regent's daughters. As she was another girl (1 of 7 overall), her birth was not necessarily greeted with the joy that had met that of her brother, Louis, Duke of Orléans. Upon the death of her father in 1723, at Versailles, at the age of forty-nine, her only brother inherited the title of Duke of Orléans and, in 1724, he married
Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden Auguste Marie Johanna of Baden-Baden (10 November 1704 – 8 August 1726), later Auguste Marie Jeanne, Duchess of Orléans, was a member of the ruling family of Baden-Baden who became Duchess of Orléans as the wife of Louis d'Orléans, Duke ...
. In December 1731, it was decided that she should marry her cousin Louis François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. Her marriage was arranged by her mother Françoise Marie and her first cousin (and subsequent mother-in-law) Louise Élisabeth, ''Dowager Princess of Conti''. After being baptised on 19 January 1732 by the Cardinal of Rohan (then the
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), she married the Prince of Conti three days later, on 22 January. The marriage ceremony took place at the
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. Louise was then fifteen years old. At her wedding, her Condé cousin,
Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon (Élisabeth Thérèse Alexandrine; 5 September 1705 – 15 April 1765) was a French prince du Sang, princess of the blood and a daughter of Louis III, Prince of Condé. Her father was the grandson of the ''Grand ...
, had the honour of holding her train. After the marriage, she became known at court as
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, the Princess of Conti. Her husband had succeeded to the Conti title in 1727 upon the death of his father Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti. In 1734, Louise gave birth to a son, heir to the Conti name, and, in 1736, to a second child who died at birth. Louise died in childbirth on 26 September 1736 at Issy, outside Paris. She was buried at the Saint-André-des-Arcs church. At her death, due to the Queen
Marie Leszczyńska Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska (; 23 June 1703 – 24 June 1768), also known as Marie Leczinska (), was Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XV from their marriage on 4 September 1725 until her death in 1768. The daughter of St ...
being otherwise engaged, the queen sent Louise's cousin
Marie Anne de Bourbon Marie Anne de Bourbon, ''Légitimée de France'', born Marie Anne de La Blaume Le Blanc, by her marriage Princess of Conti then Princess Dowager of Conti, ''suo jure'' Duchess of La Vallière and of Vaujours (; 2 October 1666 – 3 May 1739) was ...
(''Mademoiselle de Clermont'') to represent her at Issy. Her only surviving son, Louis François Joseph, was the last
Prince of Conti Prince of Conti (French: ''prince de Conti'') was a French noble title, assumed by a cadet branch of the princely house of Bourbon-Condé. History The title derives its name from Conty, a small town in northern France, c. 35 km southwest ...
.


Issue

* Louis François Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1 September 1734 – 13 March 1814); married his first cousin, Princess Maria Fortunata of Modena, and had no legitimate issue. * Stillborn son* (26 September 1736).


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