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Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes

Louis Auguste
Prince of Dombes
Portrait of a man in armour presumed to be of Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Prince of Dombes (grandson of King Louis XIV) by an unknown artist.jpg
Born (1700-03-04)4 March 1700
Palace of Versailles, France
Died 1 October 1755(1755-10-01) (aged 55)
Palace of Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France
Burial Église, Sceaux, France
Full name
Louis Auguste de Bourbon
House House of Bourbon
Father Louis Auguste de Bourbon
Mother Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
Full name
Louis Auguste de Bourbon

Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Prince of Dombes (4 March 1700 in Palace of Versailles – 1 October 1755 in Palace of Fontainebleau) was a grandson of Louis XIV of France and of his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs de Montespan. He was a member of the legitimised House of Bourbon-Maine.

Born at the Palace of Versailles on 4 March 1700, Louis-Auguste was the fourth child of Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine and of his wife, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon.

Given the title of prince de Dombes at his birth, he was the second child of his parents to hold the title.

Unlike his father, the prince de Dombes was of high military skill. Louis-Auguste served under the renowned military commander Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718). He also fought in the War of the Polish Succession (1733–1738) and in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748).

Upon the death of his father (to whom he was very close), on 14 May 1736 at the Château de Sceaux, he inherited the bulk of his wealth and his titles.

He became Colonel General of the Cent-Suisses et Grisons (1710), Governor of Languedoc (1737), Grand veneur de France and Count of Eu (1736).


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