Marie Anne de Bourbon
Marie Anne de Bourbon ( * October 2, 1666 in Vincennes castle; † May 3, 1739 in Paris), also known as first Mademoiselle de Blois, was the eldest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress, Louise de La Vallière. By marriage with Louis Armand I de Bourbon, prince de Conti was 1680 Princess of Conti.
Life
Like all children, Louise de La Vallière was taken away after birth and the wife of Jean -Baptiste Colbert, Marie Charon de MENARS entrusted, Marie Anne her mother. She cared for the education of the girl who is not only considered the most beautiful daughter of Louis XIV, but also as its favorite daughter. It was from her father officially recognized by a certificate from the March of the year in 1667 and added to the royal house.
At the age of 13 years, Marie Anne married on January 16, 1680 in the chapel of the castle of Saint-Louis Saint- Germain -en- Laye, 19 year-old Louis Armand I de Bourbon, prince de Conti, which she was the first illegitimate royal child that was married to a prince of the blood. The Great Condé (French: le grand Condé ) itself had stopped for his nephew with Louise de La Vallière to her daughter's hand. On the occasion of the marriage, which was celebrated with great pomp, the king his daughter a marriage granted the unusually high dowry of one million livres tournois, because previously had William III. , The Prince of Orange, and Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, declined with thanks to Marie Anne.
After a disaster supposedly rich wedding night, the couple remained childless. The newly crowned Princess of Conti told her husband that she was extremely disappointed by him, and gave her favor henceforth his younger brother François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti. When Marie Anne's younger brother Louis died in 1683, his sister inherited all of its assets, including land, 200,000 Écu and the later Hôtel de Conti called the Palace of Versailles. 1685 Marie Anne fell ill of smallpox. She survived the disease, but her husband succumbed to her a little later on 9 November 1685. After only five years of marriage at the age of 19 to become a widow, Marie Anne married again and was not henceforth douairière princesse de Conti called. With mid-20s she was the perfect image of her mother and indulged in numerous affairs with young officers.
In 1713, Marie Anne acquired the Hôtel de Lorge in Paris and settled, after the death of her father, of Versailles transferred there. 1716 they added the Castle Choisy added their possession before they even in 1718 the Castle of Champs-sur -Marne acquired to give it to her cousin, Charles François de La Baume Le Blanc, marquis de La Vallière.
Marie Anne got on her life only moderately well with her younger half-sisters, Louise Françoise and Françoise Marie from the relationship between the King and Madame de Montespan, as all daughters stayed jealous of her relationship with Louis XIV. She died in 1739 at the age of 72 years with a brain tumor and was buried in the Paris Saint-Roch church.