Princess Victoire of France
| Madame Victoire | |||||
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Victoire by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1748.
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| Born |
11 May 1733 Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Died | 7 June 1799 (aged 66) Triest, Italy |
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| Burial | Basilica of Saint-Denis | ||||
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| House | Bourbon | ||||
| Father | Louis XV of France | ||||
| Mother | Maria Leszczyńska | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
| Signature | _of_France_in_1753_at_the_wedding_of_the_Prince_of_Cond%C3%A9_and_Charlotte_de_Rohan.jpg){kind=small} |
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| Victoire Louise Marie Thérèse de France |
Victoire de France, Daughter of France (Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire; 11 May 1733 – 7 June 1799) was the seventh child and fifth daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska.
Originally known as Madame Quatrième, signifying the fourth daughter of the King (an older sister had died in February 1733, before her birth), she was later known as Madame Victoire. She outlived eight of her nine siblings, and was survived by her older sister Madame Adélaïde by less than a year.
Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France was born at the Palace of Versailles. Unlike the older children of Louis XV, Madame Victoire was not raised at the Palace of Versailles. Rather, she was sent to live at the Abbey of Fontevraud. She remained there till 1748 when she was 15.
At the age of 15, she was allowed to return to her father's court, where her father's attention increasingly focused on his mistresses, Madame de Pompadour and later Madame du Barry.
In 1753, it was suggested that she might eventually marry her brother-in-law, Ferdinand VI of Spain, as his wife, Barbara of Portugal was seriously ill at the time. Despite her illness, though, the Queen of Spain survived another five years.
In 1768, her mother Maria Leszczyńska died, her father having acquired a new maîtresse-en-titre, the comtesse du Barry, not long previously. Louis XV, however, sent Madame du Barry away from Versailles just before he died in 1774 in order that he could receive the last rites of the Catholic Church. In 1770, Madame Victoire's nephew, Louis-Auguste, the Dauphin of France, married Archduchess Maria Antoinette of Austria at Versailles, and then permanently exiled du Barry from court.
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