Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon

Madame de Montespan and her four children:Demoiselle de Nantes, the comte de Vexin, the Demoiselle de Tours and the duc du Maine

Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon , known as Mademoiselle de Tours,(1674 - 1681) was the illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and his most famous Maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan.

Early Life

Louis Marie Anne was born in Paris on November 18 1674 and died September 15 1681. She was the couples third daughter and their fifth child. She was legitimised in the catholic church by her father Louis XIV in January 1676 at the age of almost two. After her birth, her care was entrusted in the hands of Madame Scarron who had taken care of her older siblings in a house bought for them by their father on the Rue de Vaugirard, then in the suburbs of Paris.

Siblings

• Louise Françoise (1669-1672) - died in infancy.
• Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc de Maine (1670-1736) married Anne-Louise-Bénédicte de Bourbon-Condé.

Anothr painting of the family circa 1676.

• • Had issue but no surviving descendants.
• Louis César de Bourbon, comte de Vexin, abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1672-1683)
• Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1677-1749) married in 1692 the future regent Philippe II de Bourbon-Orléans, duc d'Orléans (1674-1723).
  • Upon her marriage, she assumed the title of duchesse de Chartres, then on the death of her father-in-law, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, she became the duchesse d'Orléans. Through her son, Françoise-Marie became the ancestor of King Louis-Philippe of the French and the modern House of Orléans.
• Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) married Marie Victoire de Noailles.
  • The modern house of Orléans is also related to him through his grand-daughter Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre who married Philippe Egalité and became the mother of Louis-Philippe.

Half Siblings

• Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois (1667 - 1683)
  • Eldest surviving son of Louis XIV and Louise de la Vallière
• Marie Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois I (1666 - 1739)
  • Later the Princesse de Conti and wife to Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti
• Marie-Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1663 - 1675)
  • Died while in the country with her father the Marquis de Montespan
• Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis d'Antin (1665 - 1736)

Dark-haired Louise-Françoise de Bourbon on the right with her younger sister, blonde Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, on the left

• • Louis Antoine later was given the title of duc d'Antin.

Royal Half Siblings

• Louis de France (1661 - 1711
  • The Dauphin of France from 1661 till his death in 1711.
• Marie-Thérèse de France (1667 - 1672)
  • The only daughter of legitimate daughter of Louis XIV to live older then the age of four. She was known as Madame Royale at court.

Later Life

From her legitimisation of 1676, she gained the style of Mademoiselle de Tours after the town of Tours, in France. She held the title till her death in 1681, at the age of seven. She died at the Château de Fontainebleau where the court happened to be.

Her mother, was said to have been badly effected by her death but was unable to attend the childs funeral, 4 days after her death, as a result of being engaged with the incarceration of the duc de Lauzun.