Louise Marie d'Orléans

Louise Marie
Mademoiselle
Full name
Louise Marie d'Orléans
Father Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
Mother Johanna of Baden-Baden
Born 5 August 1726
Palais-Royal, Paris, France
Died 14 May 1728 (aged 1)
Château de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, France
Burial Val-de-Grâce, Paris

Louise Marie d'Orléans[1] (5 August 1726 14 May 1728) was a French princess by birth.

Biography

Louise Marie d'Orléans was born at the Palais-Royal to Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans and his Duchess, the Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, who died three days after giving birth.

Her father was a second cousin of the then King Louis XV, and a great-grandson of Louis XIII. Her mother was the last child of the famous general Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden. Louise Marie was initially known at court as Mademoiselle d'Orléans and, after the death of her father's first cousin Louise Anne de Bourbon, as Mademoiselle.

She died at the age of 1 year and 8 months at the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris, and was buried in the Val-de-Grâce Convent in Paris.

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Notes

  1. Some documents call her Louise Madeleine d'Orléans.