Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier

Anne Marie Louise d' Orléans ( * May 29, 1627 in the Paris Louvre, † April 5, 1693 in Paris), Duchess of Montpensier, was the daughter of Jean -Baptiste Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and Marie de Bourbon, duchesse de Montpensier, a niece of Louis XIII. and was nicknamed La Grande Mademoiselle.

Life

Six days after the birth of her mother Anne Marie, what serious allegations to be treated midwife Louyse Bourgeois meant died. Anne Marie was so the heiress of the rich duchy of Montpensier and after the death of the mother not only the wealthiest woman in France, but after the Queen and the woman with the second highest rank in the entire Kingdom of France.

After the death of Louis XIII. there was on the part of his wife, Anne of Austria, which exercised the regency for her at that time still under age son, Louis XIV, and the prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin diverse aspirations, Anne Marie to marry for the sake of France by a member of a well-known European noble family. Even Anne Marie's father Jean -Baptiste Gaston 's efforts to advantageous marriage of his daughter, but had completely opposite ambitions, because he fought - despite its close relationship to the royal family - for quite some time against its policy of absolutism. However, both Cardinal Mazarin as her father had not reckoned with the 16- year-old Duchess, who wanted to determine her future husband themselves. It would take several years before a man found her pleasure and Anne Marie married.

Just come of age she took in 1648 during the Fronde party for Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and thus against the royal house. They did this not only with good words, but commanded himself one of the armies against Mazarin. After the Cardinal was the riots in 1653 reflected finally, Anne Marie was exiled from court and sent into exile for five years after Saint- Fargeau.

Upon her return in 1657, her father died in 1660, and soon broke out in the French royal court a renewed debate regarding a wedding Anne Marie. As they approach the "desire" her cousin Ludwig after a marriage with the King of Portugal resisted, she was banished by him in 1663 as a punishment for another year after Saint- Fargeau.

During her time in Paris, she led a salon, whose regulars her younger half-sister, Marguerite Louise d' Orléans counted.

Almost forty years old met Marie Anne finally has the man she married after a few trials: Antoine de Nompar Caumont, Marquis of Puyguilhem and Duke of Lauzun, an officer of the Royal Guard. But his initial consent to the marriage revoked Louis XIV; more, Antoine was fixed and thrown into prison. Anne Marie had to transfer ownership of their cousins, to secure the release of the beloved 1681 a significant proportion of their possessions to the children.

The two married in secret shortly after the release of Antoine's, but the now 57 -year-old had to quickly notice that their marriage represented anything but the dreamed of their paradise. After only three years, she left her husband in the year 1684th

His final years were spent Anne Marie Louise d' Orléans to ending its more than 30 years ago started memoirs, which were published after her death in 1729 in Amsterdam.

Works

• Mémoires. Mercure de France, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7152-2521-0.