Louise Francoise de Bourbon (1673-1743)

Louise Francoise de Bourbon , titrated Miss de Nantes , by its marriage duchess of Bourbon , then princess of Cop , was born in 1673 and died in 1743.

Biography

Natural girl of Louis XIV and Madam de Montespan, it is raised by Madam de Maintenon. Louise Francoise de Bourbon is married at twelve years with the duke of Bourbon, wire of Henri-Jules de Bourbon-Cop and grandson of the Grand Cop (the oldest son of prince de Condé carried the title of duke of Bourbon while waiting to be in its turn prince de Condé with died of its father). The new groom is so ugly that the Court calls it the green Singe . This one neglects it but gives him nine children, among whom the duke Louis Henri de Bourbon, one of the most disputed the Prime Ministers France, at the beginning of the reign of Louis XV. Her husband is a being violent, cruel, which inherited the madness of the Cop. However, there remains a fine and intelligent being which will make the fortune of its family while showing itself always submitted to his/her father-in-law. He dies in 1710, and its widow comforts herself quickly. One indeed lends to the duchess leaning with the galantery. It is certain that it had inclination for the prince de Conti (his/her daughter Marie-Anne was regarded as the girl of prince de Conti). She had only little influence on her children: his/her oldest daughter, become nun, seems to have inherited the madness of the Cop; his/her oldest son, Louis-Henri (Mr. the Duke) was submitted to his mistress, Mrs. de Prie; his/her son the count de Charolais recalled by many points his father like cruel and being discharged to him… As for the count de Clermont, it Maria not, and maintained many mistresses very freely… M of Nantes on the occasion to face his sister, M of Blois (become duchess of Orleans in 1701) in 1710 at the time of the marriage of the duke of Berry: this last, grandson of Louis XIV, simple and generous prince, was to marry. Louis XIV hesitated between a princess of the house of Orleans and a princess of the house of Cop (Louise-Elisabeth de Bourbon-Cop). Finally they were Orleans which carried it, with the great fury of Louise-Francoise! She had become very near to her half-brother, the Large Dolphin, and reigned on the Château of Meudon: she hoped for much the future reign of Monseigneur, but this one died in 1711, ruining all its hopes!

Beautiful, free, provocante, it is dreaded for its corrosive spirit, and animates the life of the Court at the end of the reign of Louis XIV. Once widowed, helped of her lover, Lassay, it makes fortune thanks to the Système of Law.

It builds in Paris one of the most beautiful monuments of the capital, the Palate-Bourbon.

See too

External bonds

Genealogy of Louise Francoise de Bourbon
http://conde.ifrance.com/l3.htm

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