Marie Anne d'Orléans
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Marie Anne d'Orl̩ans, ''petite-fille de France'' (Marie Anne; 9 November 1652 Р17 August 1656) was a French Princess and youngest daughter of Gaston d'Orl̩ans. She held the rank of '' Grand daughter of France''. She was a member of the House of Orl̩ans.


Biography

Born at the Palais d'Orléans, the present day Luxembourg Palace in Paris, she was the youngest daughter born to the Duke and Duchess of Orléans. Her father, Gaston d'Orléans, was the youngest brother of the late Louis XIII; as such, Marie Anne was born during the reign of his first cousin, the 12-year-old Louis XIV. As a ''grand daughter of France'', Marie Anne was allowed the style of '' Royal Highness'' and was known as ''Mademoiselle de Chartres'' from birth. Her older siblings included the future ''
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'',Her older half sister from her father's first marriage to Marie de Bourbon who died giving birth to ''la Grande Mademoiselle'' in 1627 the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Duchess of Guise and the short lived
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died in 1652 aged a year and a half. She died at the Palais d'Orléans and was buried at the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis outside Paris, the traditional burial place of the
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References and notes

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Orleans, Marie Anne 1652 births 1656 deaths Nobility from Paris Marie Anne Marie Anne Marie Anne 17th-century French nobility Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis Royalty and nobility who died as children