Louise Marie d'OrléansSome documents call her Louise ''Madeleine'' d'Orléans. (5 August 1726 – 14 May 1728) was a French princess of the blood by birth. She died in infancy.

Biography

Louise Marie d'Orléans was born at the Palais-Royal to Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans and his Duchess, the Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, who died three days after giving birth. Her father was a second cousin of the then King

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, and a great-grandson of

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. Her mother was the last child of the famous general

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. Louise Marie was initially known at court as ''Mademoiselle d'Orléans'' and, after the death of her father's first cousin Louise Anne de Bourbon, as '' Mademoiselle''. She died at the age of 1 year and 8 months at the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris, and was buried in the Val-de-Grâce Convent in Paris.

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