La Ferté-Vidame
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La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
View of Ferté-Vidame castle, before 1750, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe
The ruins of the Château de la Ferté-Vidame in 2005
Chartres Cathedral
Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles. He was therefore a grandson of Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. From birt
La Ferté-Vidame
…in 1771. It is now a roofless shell. At the Bourbon Restoration, it was restituted to the duchess of Orléans, as the closest relative of her father Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, the owner before the French Revolution. On her death in 1821, the domaine passed to her eldest son Louis-Philippe I, future king of the French. He…
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier
Louis Jean Marie as a child, by Jean-Marc Nattier .
Portrait of the Duke, by Jean-Marc Nattier, c. 1742-53
The Duke of Penthièvre, by Charles-André van Loo, 18th century