Princess Marie Adélaïde of France
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| Duchess of Louvois | |||||
Madame Adélaïde with a medal showing her parents and the then King, her nephew Louis XVI
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23 March 1732 Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Died | 27 February 1800 (aged 67) Triest, Italy |
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| Burial | Basilica of Saint-Denis | ||||
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| House | Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Louis XV of France | ||||
| Mother | Marie Leszczyńska | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Marie Adélaïde de France |
Marie Adélaïde de France,Daughter of France (23 March 1732 in Versailles – 27 February 1800 in Trieste), was the fourth daughter and sixth child of King Louis XV of France and his consort, Marie Leszczyńska. As the daughter of the king, she was a Fille de France. She was referred to as Madame Adélaïde from 1737 to 1755 and from 1759 to her death, and simply as Madame from 1755 to 1759.
Originally known as Madame Quatrième ("Madame the Fourth"), until the death of her older sister Louise Marie in 1733, she became Madame Troisième, ("Madame the Third"). Adélaïde also possessed the Duchy of Louvois with her sister Madame Sophie from 1777, and which had been created for them by their nephew Louis XVI, in their own right.
Madame Adélaïde was raised at the Palace of Versailles with her older sister, Madame Henriette, along with her brother Louis, Dauphin of France. Her younger sisters received their education at the Abbaye de Fontevraud, because the cost of raising them in Versailles with all the status they were entitled to was deemed too expensive by Cardinal Fleury, Louis XV's chief minister. Adélaïde was expected to join her younger sisters in Fontevraud, but she was allowed to stay with her brother and her two eldest sisters in Versailles after a personal plea to her father.
She was put in the care of Marie Isabelle de Rohan, Duchesse de Tallard.
Adélaïde was never married. By the time she had reached the age when princesses were normally married, in the late 1740s, there were no potential consorts regarded to be of suitable status available, and she preferred to remain unmarried rather to marry someone below the status of monarch or heir to a throne. Marriage suggested to her were liaisons with the Prince of Conti and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, neither whom had the status of being a monarch or an heir to a throne.
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