Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine
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Louis Auguste
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| Born |
31 March 1670 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
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| Died | 14 May 1736 (aged 66) Château de Sceaux, France |
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| Burial | Église, Sceaux, France | ||||
| Spouse | Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon | ||||
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Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes Louis Charles, Count of Eu Louise Françoise, Mademoiselle du Maine |
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| House | House of Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Louis XIV of France | ||||
| Mother | Françoise-Athénaïse de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Légitimé de France, Prince Souverain de Dombes, Duc du Maine |
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 31 March 1670 - Sceaux, 14 May 1736) was a legitimised son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan. The king's favourite son, he was the founder of the semi-royal House of Bourbon-Maine named after his title and his surname.
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 31 March 1670. He was named Louis after his father and Auguste after the Roman Emperor Augustus
Immediately after his birth, Louis-Auguste was placed in the care of one of his mother's acquaintances, the widowed Madame Scarron, who took him to live in a house on rue de Vaugirard, near the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. His siblings, Louis-César, Louise-Françoise and Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon were also brought there after their births. Their mother, living with the king at Versailles, rarely saw her children, and Madame Scarron took the place of mother in Louis-Auguste's affections.
One of his legs was shorter than the other and Scarron took him to consult, first, a famous quack at Antwerp and later to the waters of Bareges, a small town near the Pyrenees, whither they traveled incognito (she as the marquise de Surgeres).
On 19 December 1673, when Louis-Auguste was three years old, Louis XIV legitimised his children by Montespan by letters patent registered by the Parlement de Paris. At this time, Louis-Auguste received the title of duc du Maine.
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