Anne Genevieve of Bourbon-Condé
| Anne Geneviève de Bourbon | |||||
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| Duchess of Longueville | |||||
Portrait of the Duchess of Longueville by Charles and Henri Beaubrun
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| Born | 28 August 1619 | ||||
| Died | 5 April 1679 (aged 59) Château of Vincennes, France |
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| Burial | Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques, Paris, France | ||||
| Spouse | Henri, Duke of Longueville | ||||
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Charles Paris, Count of St Pol | ||||
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| House | House of Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Henry II, Prince of Condé | ||||
| Mother | Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
| Signature | _de_Bourbon_at_the_marriage_of_her_nephew_the_Duke_of_Enghien_in_1641.png){kind=small} |
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| Anne Geneviève de Bourbon |
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (28 August 1619 – 5 April 1679) was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism.
Anne Geneviève was the only daughter of Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, and the sister of Louis, Grand Condé. She was born in the prison of the Château of Vincennes into which her father and mother had been thrown for opposition to Marshal d'Ancre, the favourite of Marie de' Medici, who was then regent during the minority of Louis XIII.
She was educated with great strictness in the convent of the Carmelites in the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. Her early years were clouded by the execution of Henri of Montmorency, her mother's only brother, for intriguing against Richelieu in 1632, and that of her mother's cousin the Count François de Montmorency-Bouteville for duelling in 1635; but her parents made their peace with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, at that time the center of all that was learned, witty, and gay in France.
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