Louise Diane d'Orléans

Diane Louise de Bourbon- Orléans ( * June 27, 1716 at the Palais Royal in Paris, † September 26, 1736 in Issy ) called, often short and Louise Diane d' Orléans, was by marriage to Louis François I de Bourbon Princess 1732 Conti.

Life

Childhood and youth

Louise Diane came in seventh and youngest daughter of the regent Philippe II de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans and his wife in the Palais Royal to the world. The birth of another daughter was taken into the family of rulers with little enthusiasm, as this had previously been born only a son and another male child was desired. Her mother Françoise Marie de Bourbon, a legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan, behaved towards her - as well as to their older siblings - always very indifferent, while the kids were getting spoiled and coddled by her father.

About her childhood and adolescence is little else known. In February 1719 she developed together with her older sister Philippine Élisabeth to the measles survived this disease but without prejudice. In that year she also received the nickname Mademoiselle de Chartres, who had been previously worn her sister Louise Adélaïde, before they went to the monastery and Abbess of Chelles was. In contemporary writings, it was up to her marriage to the Prince of Conti called that. Louise Diane's grandmother Liselotte of the Palatinate, the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, described her granddaughter in one of her numerous letters as not ugly, but an obnoxious child. Once they are only ansähe, they would begin to blare. Nevertheless, they should be grown into a handsome and lovable person.

Then there is no further news about her childhood until her planned marriage was announced with the son of her cousin Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon- Condé in December 1731. Louis François I de Bourbon was the death of his father in 1727 the Prince of Conti and 14 months younger than his bride. The compound had been arranged by Louis François ' mother, to terminate the existing rivalry between the house and the house of Orléans Condé, both branches of the family of the Bourbons, and the resulting disputes.

Princess of Conti

Louise Diane married at the age of 15 years on January 22, 1732 in the chapel of the Palace of Versailles, signed after the previous day in the apartments of the king of the marriage contract and the betrothal had been celebrated. An event during the wedding fair of the young couple shows examples of the double standard of the then French court nobility and led to a scandal: it should be regarded as an honor really, to be able to carry as unmarried princess of the blood at the wedding of a close relatives of her train. On the other hand, this service was very physically demanding because the towing of the elaborately designed robes were very heavy. Louise Diane's cousin Louise Anne de Bourbon- Condé had been applied to the towing service for the fair, but she refused recently to him actually take over. By pointing out that this is actually the task of Louise Diane's sister Philippine Élisabeth, the next unmarried relatives, and that it had reason to believe that this would only be pressed before the drudgery, they would not be willing to accept this drudgery. Also, since Louise Anne's sister Marie Anne refused to carry the train of her cousin, was about to Louis François ' mother, the widowed Princess Conti, provide as towing wearer available to the thus discredited Etiquette her family and the end of the court ceremonial to save. Ultimately, however, took another cousin Louise Diane unloved task.

Louise Diane's husband had been known at the time for more to hit once over the traces. This changed after his marriage, which is attributed to the gentle influence of his wife. But now and then he fell back into old habits. So for example, when he was very drunk one night back home and burst into a fit of jealousy in Louise Diane's bedroom to it - and search it for any hidden lovers - the weapon in his hand and his wife abusive. Louise Diane was pregnant at that time in the seventh month and was able to reassure her husband, so that he lay down to sleep eventually. After he had but they treated so bad, the young woman showed a good deal of self-confidence and that they had their own head. She mounted still in the same night her carriage, to seek refuge with her ​​great-aunt Anna Henriette von Pfalz- simmering, the Dowager Princess of Condé. Despite requests and demands of her husband, she refused - supported by her great-aunt - to return to her husband in the marital household. It is even in the Parlement an official separation " from bed and board " have ( " de corps et de biens " ) requested. As the dispute between the two went out, however, is not known. Louise Diane brought on 1 September 1734 in Paris Hôtel de Conti to their son and sole heir Louis François II to the world. With his death in 1814 the house of Conti went out.

Louise Diane died at age 20 at the birth of her second ( stillborn ) child at Castle Issy in childbirth and was buried in the church of Saint -André -des- Arcs in L' Isle- Adam.