Bathilde d'Orléans
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Bathilde d'Orléans was a French princess of the blood of the House of Orléans. She was sister of Philippe Égalité, the mother of the Duke of Enghien and aunt of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. M
Portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo, c. 1770
Children of the Duke of Orléans (c.1755); Bathilde holding an angel, with her brother, the young Duke of Chartres, on the far right. Painted by François-Hubert Drouais.
Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien was a member of the House of Bourbon of France. More famous for his death than his life, he was executed by order of Napoleon Bonaparte, who brought charges a
Bathilde d'Orléans
…Bathilde; 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822) was a French princess of the blood of the House of Orléans. She was sister of Philippe Égalité, the mother of the Duke of Enghien and aunt of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Married to the young Duke of Enghien, a distant cousin, she was known as the Duchess of Bourbon…
Prince Louis Antoine as a young boy by L. L. Schilly (fourth quarter of the 18th century)
Charlotte Louise de Rohan, Enghien's secret wife; miniature by François-Joseph Desvernois
Execution of the Duke of Enghien by Jean-Paul Laurens
His tomb by Louis Pierre Deseine in the castle of Vincennes