Princess Marie of Orléans was a French princess, artist, and, by her marriage, duchess of Württemberg (1837). Before her marriage she was styled Mademoiselle de Valois.
Princess Marie in her studio in the Tuileries Palace (by Prosper Lafaye, c. 1842)
Windows of St. Saturnin's Chapel in the Palace of Fontainebleau
Jeanne d’Arc pleurant à la vue d’un Anglais blessé, 1834, Museum of Grenoble
Duke Alexander of Württemberg was a member of the dynasty which ruled the German kingdom of Württemberg. To marry a daughter of the French king he agreed that their children would be raised in their mother's faith, thereby becoming ancestor of the Roman Catholic branch of his family.
