Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
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Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang.
Portrait by François de Troy as Cleopatra, c. 1690
Louise Bénédicte in the year of her marriage
The Château de Sceaux at the time of Louise Bénédicte
Philippe d'Orléans pointing to an infant Louis XV for whom he acted as regent for until 1723, Louise Bénédicte was imprisoned by Orléans as a result of her involvement in the Cellamare Conspiracy in 1719.
Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Prince of Dombes was a grandson of Louis XIV and of his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs de Montespan. He was a member of the legitimised House of Bourbon-Maine.
Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
…and became known as the Hôtel du Maine (destroyed 1838). At the time of her imprisonment, she was trying to arrange the marriage of her eldest son, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, heir to the Maine's fortune, to his cousin Charlotte Aglaé, Mademoiselle de Valois. The rivalry between the Maines and Charlotte Aglaé's father, the…
Portrait by François de Troy