Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duke of Penthièvre , of Aumale (1775), of Rambouillet (1737), of Gisors, Châteauvillain, Arc-in-Barrois, from Amboise, count of Have and lord of the duchy of Carignan, admiral and large huntsman of France, were born with Rambouillet the November 16th 1725 and died in the Château of Bizy to Vernon (the Eure) the March 4th 1793.

Biography

Only sons of Louis Alexandre of Bourbon (1678 - 1737), count de Toulouse, duke of Penthièvre, bastard legitimated Louis XIV and of Madam de Montespan, and of the duchess born Marie Victoire de Noailles, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon was named Admiral de France in survival on December 1st 1734 and governor and general Lieutenant of Brittany in survival on December 31st 1736. He inherited the civil and military loads of his father in December 1737, namely admiral de France, governor of Brittany and Large Huntsman.

He initially thought of marrying Louise Henriette of Bourbon-Conti, but the princess dowager of Conti gave the preference to the duke of Chartres Louis Philippe of Orleans (1725-1785). It was folded back then on Marie Therese Félicité on Este-Modena (1726 - 1754), girl of the duke François III of Modena and of the duchess born Charlotte-Aglaé of Orleans (1700-1761), itself girl of the Régent. The marriage took place in 1744 and was very happy. It gave the day to a many posterity:

It was made Brigadier the July 2nd 1743 then general Lieutenant the May 2nd 1744. He was knight of the Ordre of the Golden Fleece the January 27th 1740 then knight of the Ordre of the Holy Spirit on January 1st 1742.

Very affected by the death of his wife in 1754, by that of sound only son surviving in 1768, and finally by the massacre of his/her daughter-in-law, the princess of Lamballe, the duke of Penthièvre carried out a withdrawn life, melancholic person, absorptive by the devotion and charity. Good and soft, he died in his bed in Normandy in 1793, whereas the French revolution made rage, his body was buried with dreux (clandestinely) but the revolutionists profaned the tombs on November 29th, 1793, 8 months after its death, the bodies were thrown in a common grave, 1816 will have to be waited until to rebuild the vault of Orleans or it will be transferred. Its principal passion was its collection of watches which he liked to regulate and repair itself.

The fortune of the duke of Penthièvre

The duke of Penthièvre collected the heritage of the children of the duke of Maine, the prince de Dombes (death in 1755) and the count of Have (death in 1775), including/understanding the castles of Sceaux, Anet, Aumale, Dreux, Gisors.

He spent much time to the Château of Rambouillet, where he had been born and of which he made embellish the gardens by putting them at the mode of time. In December 1783, it had to yield it to Louis XVI, which wanted a vast domain of hunting in the forest of the Yvelines and found its Château of too exiguous Saint-Hubert. By leaving the field where it had been born and which it had so much liked, the duke of Penthièvre carried the nine coffins of his/her father, his mother, her wife and of his/her six children, who he went deposited in his property of Dreux: it is the origin of the royal Chapelle of Dreux, necropolis family of the house of Orleans.

N the other hand, it repurchased with the duchess of Choiseul splendid the Château of Chanteloup, close to Amboise and the king forced the banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde to yield to him, in 1784, his splendid Château of Ferté-Vidame. Those were confiscated with the Révolution like national goods.

The duke of Penthièvre had moreover the castles of Blois, Amboise and the Châteauneuf-on-Loire, as well as the Hôtel from Toulouse in Paris (seat of the bank of France nowadays)

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