Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1627–1693)
Auteur de Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier; Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Œuvres de Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- duchesse de Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans,
- Date de naissance
- 1627-05-29
- Date de décès
- 1693-04-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, France
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- France
- Lieu de naissance
- Paris, France
- Lieu du décès
- Paris, France
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, France
Saint-Fargeau, Burgundy, France
Versailles, France - Professions
- duchess
aristocrat
memoirist - Organisations
- Haus Orléans
- Courte biographie
- Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans, duchesse de Montpensier in her own right, was born at the royal palace of the Louvre in Paris. Her parents were Gaston, duc d' Orléans, brother of King Louis XIII of France, and his wife Marie de Bourbon, duchesse de Montpensier. She was thus a first cousin of King Louis XIV. Her courtesy title at court was La Grande Mademoiselle. She inherited fabulous wealth and her title from her mother, who died at her birth. She became a major figure in the 17th century French civil wars known as the Fronde. For this, she was exiled to her estates in the country for a time but then allowed to return. She wrote memoirs that provide a valuable account of the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 42
- Popularité
- #357,757
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1