Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Cop
Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Cop , princess of Conti (1713 - 1727) then princess Dowager of Conti (1727) and countess of Sancerre (1740 - 1775), was born with Versailles the November 22nd 1693 and died in Paris the May 27th 1775.
Girl of Louis III of Bourbon-Cop, Prince de Condé, and of the princess born Louise Francoise de Bourbon (1673-1743), it married on July 9th 1713 Louis Armand II of Bourbon-Conti (1695 - 1727), prince de Conti. They had two children:
- Louise Henriette of Bourbon-Conti (1726 - 1759) which married in 1743 Louis Philippe of Orleans (1725-1785), duke of Orleans.
Pretty woman, in a very soft nature and pleasant ways, it looked after her husband courageously when he was reached Petite pox in August 1716. Its mariagen' was not less unhappy. Not only the prince misled his wife openly, but still, with half-insane, it showed a morbid and violent jealousy.
The princess, on her side, had not been long in taking for lover the marquis of Fare, a rider of beautiful pace, future Marshal of France, without taking the trouble to dissimulate this connection. Conti started to beat his wife and one twice had to call a surgeon.
She ends up fleeing to go itself to take refuge in her mother, then in a convent. The prince called some with the Parlement to try to recover his wife. This one ends up reinstating the marital home in 1725. Conti started by locking up it in its Château of Isle-Adam but, through seduction and of persuasion, it ends up convincing it to return to Paris in 1727. Suffering from a pneumonia, the prince was not long in dying.
In 1732, the princess Maria dowager her son with his cousin Louise Diane of Orleans (1716-1736), girl of fire Régent what allowed the reconciliation of the branches juniors by the family of France, rivals since the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
In 1746, it agreed to submit officially to the Court Madam de Pompadour, the regulating king exchanges the amount of its debts of it.
She had with Louveciennes the castle of Neighbors. The architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux gave a reconstruction project of this castle, engraved towards 1790 under the title “Country house for the princess of Conti with Louveciennes”.
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