Louise Henriette de Bourbon
| Louise Henriette de Bourbon | |||||
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| Duchess of Orléans Duchess of Étampes |
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Louise Henriette in 1743 by Jean-Marc Nattier
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20 June 1726 Paris, France |
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| Died | 9 February 1759 (aged 32) Palais-Royal, Paris, France |
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| Burial | Val-de-Grâce, Paris | ||||
| Spouse | Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans | ||||
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Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans Bathilde, Princess of Condé |
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House of Orléans House of Bourbon |
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| Father | Louis Armand de Bourbon | ||||
| Mother | Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Louise Henriette de Bourbon |
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Styles of Louise Henriette, Duchess of Orléans as consort |
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| Reference style | Her Serene Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Serene Highness |
| Alternative style | Madame |
Louise Henriette de Bourbon (20 June 1726 – 9 February 1759), Mademoiselle de Conti at birth, was a French princess, who, by marriage, became Duchess of Chartres (1743–1752), then Duchess of Orléans (1752–1759) upon the death of her father-in-law. On 4 February 1752, her husband became the head of the House of Orléans, and the First Prince of the Blood (Premier prince du sang), the most important personage after the immediate members of the royal family.
The new Duke of Orléans and his wife were then addressed as Monsieur le Prince and Madame la Princesse. Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, was a grandmother of the French monarch Louis-Philippe King of the French, "the Citizen King". Her descendants include the present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium.
Louise Henriette was born in Paris, the only daughter of Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti and Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon. Her father was the second son of François Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti known as le Grand Conti and his wife Marie Thérèse de Bourbon. Her paternal grandmother and her maternal grandfather being siblings, her parents were first cousins. Her mother was the oldest and favourite daughter of Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, herself the oldest of the surviving legitimised daughters of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, Louise Henriette was a Princess of the Blood (princesse du sang). In her youth she was known at court as Mademoiselle de Conti.
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