Henriette-Anne of France
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Henriette by Jean-Marc Nattier
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14 August 1727 Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Died | 10 February 1752 (aged 24) Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Burial | Basilica of Saint Denis, France | ||||
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| House | Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Louis XV of France | ||||
| Mother | Marie Leszczyńska | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Anne Henriette de France |
Anne Henriette of France(14 August 1727 – 10 February 1752) was a French princess, the twin of Louise Élisabeth of France, and the second child of King Louis XV of France and queen consort Marie Leszczyńska.
The twins were born at the Palace of Versailles on 14 August 1727. While the birth of the twins were considered a political disappointment, because the Salic Law disqualified them as heirs to the throne and the succession was thus still unsolved after their birth, their father, the King was delighted, and commented that after all talk of him not being able to be a father, he was now the father of two. Henriette was named after her paternal great-great grandmother Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, with Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon and Louise Anne de Bourbon as her godparents. As the legitimate daughter of the king, she was a fille de France, but as the younger of the twins, she was referred as Madame Seconde; as an adult, she became known as Madame Henriette, or only Madame, as the eldest daughter of the king present in Versailles after the marriage of her sister.
The eldest children of Louis XV, the twins Élisabeth and Henriette, Marie-Louise, Adélaïde and their brother, the Dauphin of France, were raised in Versailles under the supervision of the Governess of the Children of France, Marie Isabelle de Rohan, duchesse de Tallard, while their younger siblings, Victoire, Sophie, Therese and Louise, were sent to be raised at the Abbey of Fontevraud in June 1738.
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