Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans
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Louise Élisabeth as Flora. Painted by Nicolas de Largillière while Louise Élisabeth was Duchess of Berry. Now held in Rijkmuseum Amsterdam.
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20 August 1695 Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Died | 21 July 1719 (aged 23) Château de La Muette, France |
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| Burial | 24 July 1719 Basilica of St Denis |
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| Spouse | Charles, Duke of Berry | ||||
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| Father | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans | ||||
| Mother | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | ||||
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| Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans |
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Royal styles of Louise Élisabeth, Duchess of Berry |
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| Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Madame de Berry |
Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Duchess of Berry (20 August 1695 in Palace of Versailles – 21 July 1719 in Paris), known affectionally with the moniker Joufflotte, was a member of the House of Orléans who married Charles, Duke of Berry.
Louise Élisabeth was born at the Palace of Versailles. She was the eldest of the surviving children of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France, and of his wife Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France. She was given the honorary title of Mademoiselle d'Orléans at birth. After her marriage the title would be given to her younger sister Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans. She was baptised at Saint-Cloud on 29 July 1696.
Louise Élisabeth grew up at the Palais-Royal, the Orléans residence in Paris. She recovered from a near fatal illness at the age of six; her father personally nursed her day and night in order to save her life. Her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Madame, known since her childhood as Liselotte, wrote in her memoirs that from a very early age, Louise Élisabeth:
... had entirely her own way, so that it is not surprising she should be like a headstrong horse.
At the age of ten, Louise Élisabeth caught smallpox at Saint-Cloud and her grandmother wrote in her memoirs that Mademoiselle d'Orléans was presumed dead for over six hours.
It was decided, with the help of Marie Adélaïde, Duchess of Burgundy, her future sister-in-law, that Louise Élisabeth would marry Charles, Duke of Berry, the youngest son of the Grand Dauphin. Papal dispensation having arrived on the 5th, the marriage took place on 6 July 1710 at the Palace of Versailles. The presiding bishop was the Cardinal de Janson. The king ordered his other Orléans granddaughters (Mademoiselle de Chartres and Mademoiselle de Valois) back from their convent at Chelles.
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