Victoire de Rohan

Victoire de Rohan
Princess of Guéméné
Victoire with Madame Royale; the text reads: Madame, Fille unique du Roi..Unknown artist
Born	(1743-12-28)28 December 1743 Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France
Died	20 September 1807(1807-09-20) (aged 63) Paris, France
Spouse	Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné
Issue Detail	Charles Alain, Prince of Guéméné Marie Louise Joséphine, Princess of Rochefort Louis Victor, Duke of Bouillon
Full name Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan
Father	Charles de Rohan
Mother	Anne Therese of Savoy

Victoire de Rohan, Princess of Guéméné (Victoire Armande Josèphe; 28 December 1743 – 20 September 1807) was a French who was the governess of the children of Louis XVI of France. She is known better as Madame de Guéméné. She was Lady of Clisson in her own right.

Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan was the second daughter of Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise. The Princes of Soubise were a cadet branch of the House of Rohan. Her mother was Princess Anna Teresa of Savoy, a daughter of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Carignano. Her mother was also a first cousin of Louis XV through an illegitimate line. She had an older half-sister, Charlotte de Rohan, who married in 1753 Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé. As the princesse de Condé, Charlotte was a princesse du sang and far outranked her younger half-sister.

As the House of Rohan claimed descent from the medieval Dukes of Brittany, its members were treated at court as princes étrangers with the style of Highness.

At the age of seventeen, Victoire married her cousin, Henri Louis de Rohan, duc de Montbazon, who was fifteen at the time. He was a member of the main House of Rohan, the Princes of Guéméné. He was a nephew of the cardinal de Rohan, who was disgraced in the famous Affair of the Diamond Necklace involving Marie Antoinette.