Louis II of Rohan-Chub (1679-1738)

Louis II Brittany Alain of Rohan-Chub , prince de Léon then (1727) Duke of Rohan, was born in Paris the September 26th 1679 and died in Paris the August 10th 1738.

Wire of Louis of Rohan-Chub (1652-1727), Duke of Rohan, and the duchess born Marie Crespin of the Nozzle, it succeeded his/her father like duke of Rohan in 1727.

His/her parents had planned to marry it with Francoise de Roquelaure (1683 - 1740), officially girl of Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure (1656 - 1738) and of the duchess born Marie-Louise of Laval-Lezay, but that the rumor of the court gave for bastard Louis XIV. But, according to Saint-Simon, “about to sign, all broke with sourness by the proud way in which the duchess of Roquelaure wanted to require that the duke of Rohan give larger to his son. the last was a big boy hurled, ugly and unpleasant with possible One could not have besides more spirit, of turning, of intrigue, nor more the air and the language of the large world. ” Miss de Roquelaure, for its part, was, always according to Saint-Simon, “uneven and extremely ugly, but had much spirit, of these bold spirits, decided, undertaking, solved”. The rupture threw both been engaged “in despair: the prince of Leon, who feared that his father treated marriages without intention making them nothing to give him, the alleged one, in the fright of the avarice of his mother, who would not marry it and would let it rot in a convent. ”

Ultimately, the prince of Leon removed Miss de Roquelaure and on March 6th 1708 with Ménilmontant married it, in a small house belonging to the Duc of Lorge. The duchess of Roquelaure precipitated with Marly to ask for the intervention of the King. “That was spread incontinent, adds Saint-Simon, where the kindness of the Court shone in all its gloss. Hardly one had feels sorry for Mrs. de Roquelaure that the ones, by aversion of the pressing great outdoors of this poor mother, the majority, approached concerning ridiculous concerning the removal of a creature which one knew very ugly and uneven by so unpleasant gallant, are reflected some with laughing, and promptly with the great glares, and to the tears, with a completely scandalous noise. All returned finally in the order by the will of the King. ” On the other hand, the two families benefitted from it to decrease considerably the dowries of the young grooms, who spent the first years of their union in a perpetual financial embarrassment.

“This romantic adventure, brings back the president Hénault, continued to be it by the singularity whose husband and woman lived together. Never they were seen one moment of agreement. Mr. de Léon was violent, Mrs. de Léon of the greatest exuberance. Their house, where any Paris abounded, which had more the great outdoors of the world for the company of which it was filled, was founded on fifteen thousand books of revenue at most which they enjoyed. There is far from there with a hundred and at least thousand francs that it would have been necessary for them for their expenditure, because they did not refuse anything in this kind. All the morning occurred between them to seek the means. Some merchants had to be amused, to embark others, to provide inventions of them to the cook to do anything something, to cherish the Master of hotel to commit it to draw from the suppliers on his word. The husband and the woman were filled with expédients on which they did not agree. One intended them to dispute with the greatest violence of all the close houses. At six o'clock in the evening, all ceased. The court, full with creditors the morning, filled of fit with body. One soupait merrily and one played all during the night. ”

The prince and the princess of Leon had six children:

Louis Marie Brittany Dominique of Rohan-Chub (1710 - 1791), duke of Lude then duke of Rohan;
Louise Armande Julie of Rohan-Chub (° 1711) which married (1739) Daniel François de Gelas of Neighbor (1686-1762), Amber knight and count de Lautrec;
Louis François of Rohan-Chub (1712 - 1743);
Marie Armande of Rohan-Chub (1713 - 1784);
Charlotte Félicité on Rohan-Chub (1718 - 1750) which married (1739) Jose Diego Gutiérrez of los Ríos, count de Fernán Núñez († 1745);
Louis Auguste of Rohan-Chub (1722 - 1753), count de Jarnac.

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Dynasty of Chub

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