ISBN: 9781156215210

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, (Louise Marie Adélaïde; 13 March 1753 23 June 1821), wife of the so-called "royal regicide" Philippe Égalité, was the mother of France's last king, Louis-Philippe, King of the French. Her father was Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, (Louise Marie Adélaïde; 13 March 1753 23 June 1821), wife of the so-called "royal regicide" Philippe Égalité, was the mother of France's last king, Louis-Philippe, King of the French. Her father was Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and her mother was Princess Maria Theresa Felicitas of Modena. At the death of her brother, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, prince de Lamballe, she became the wealthiest heiress in France prior to the French Revolution. She was the sister in law of the infamous princesse de Lamballe and had good relations with Marie Antoinette. One of the first patrons of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, she was the last member of the so called Bourbon-Penthièvre family. She was the Duchess of Orléans by marriage. Marie-Adélaïde was born on 13 March 1753 at the Hôtel de Toulouse, the family Paris residence since 1712 when the Count of Toulouse bought it from Louis Phélypeaux de La Vrillière. Her mother died in childbirth the following year. Styled Mademoiselle d'Ivoy initially and, as a young girl, until her marriage, Mademoiselle de Penthièvre (derived from dukedom inherited by her father). The style of Mademoiselle de Penthièvre had been previoulsy borne by her sister "Marie Louise de Bourbon" (1751-1753) who died six months after Marie-Adélaïde's birth. Education At birth, she was put in the care of Madame de Sourcy and, as was the custom for many girls of the nobility, she was later raised in a convent, the Abbaye de Montmartre, overlooking Paris, where she spent twelve years. Marie-Adélaïde was pretty, shy, and pious. As a child, she was encouraged to take an active part in Books, , Dukes-of-Carignan~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<