Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (; 9 November 1707 – 9 December 1743),

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(), was a French courtier,

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and male-line great-grandson of

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 ...

Early life

He was born at

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in 1707, the elder of the two children of Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, ''marquis de Gondrin'', and his wife,

Marie Victoire de Noailles ''Marie Victoire'' Sophie de Noailles, Countess of Toulouse (6 May 1688 in Versailles – 30 September 1766 in Paris), was a French noble and courtier. Her second spouse was Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse, Louis Alexandre de Bourb ...

. His father was a member of the House of Pardaillan de Gondrin, an old noble family of Gascon origin. His mother was one of twenty children born to

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and Marie Françoise de Bournonville. Among his large extended family were maternal cousins, Adrien Maurice, Duke of Noailles (who married Madame de Maintenon's heiress) and the Duke of La Vallière.

Career

Louis was known as the ''marquis de Gondrin'' from 1712 when his father died. Maria was his father's first wife. She remarried on 2 February 1723 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, ''Count of Toulouse'', the youngest child of

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and Louis's great-grandmother : Mme de Montespan in a secret ceremony. The marriage was announced only after the death of the Régent in December of the same year. As such, his half-brother was Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, the ''duc de Penthièvre'' and single richest man in France prior to the revolution. His nephews included the prince de LamballeThe two never met as Louis died before the prince was born in 1747 (husband of the murdered Maria Teresa Luisa of Savoy).

Personal life

On 29 October 1722, he married Françoise Gillonne de Montmorency (1704–1768), a granddaughter of

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, Duke of Luxembourg and

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. The couple had four children, one son (born in 1727) and three daughters. * Julie Sophie Gillette de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1725–1797), the Abbess of Fontevraud from 1765 to 1792; she never married. * Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1727–1757), who never married and died in

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during the

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. * Marie Françoise de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1728–1764), who married François Emery de Durfort, Count of Civrac. * ''Julie'' Magdeleine Victoire de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1731–1799), who married François Emmanuel de Crussol, 9th Duke of Uzès, one of the most senior peers in France, ranking immediately after the Princes of the Blood (legitimate male-line descendants of the ruling

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). He died at the age of 36, and was succeeded as Duke of Antin by his only son Louis. His wife outlived him by 25 years.

Ancestry

References

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