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Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine

Louis Auguste
Duc du Maine
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Louis Auguste
Born (1670-03-31)31 March 1670
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Died 14 May 1736(1736-05-14) (aged 66)
Château de Sceaux, France
Burial Église, Sceaux, France
Spouse Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
Issue
Detail
Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes
Louis Charles, Count of Eu
Louise Françoise, Mademoiselle du Maine
Full name
Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Légitimé de France, Prince Souverain de Dombes, Duc du Maine
House House of Bourbon
Father Louis XIV of France
Mother Françoise-Athénaïse de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan
Religion Roman Catholicism
Signature
Full name
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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