Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon
French noble (1690-1760)
Marie Anne Éléonore Gabrielle de Bourbon (French pronunciation: [maʁi an eleɔnɔʁ ɡabʁijɛl də buʁbɔ̃]; 22 December 1690 – 30 August 1760) was a daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé and Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé. She was the Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs, an abbey in the Villejuif suburb of Paris.
Biography
Marie Anne was born at the Palace of Versailles to the Duke and Duchess of Bourbon. The eldest child of her parents she was known as Mademoiselle de Bourbon in her youth.
Marie Anne Eléonores mother who was seen as one of the beauties at court and with a vivacious personality, had an affair with François Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, the brother-in-law of her older half-sister, Marie Anne de Bourbon, in 1695. François Louis' wife was the pious Marie Thérèse de Bourbon; Marie Thérèse was in turn the oldest sister of Louise Françoise's husband. The affair was facilitated by Louise Francoise half.-brother Louis, the Grand Dauphin who allowed the couple to meet in secret at Meudon. Because of this it was rumored that Marie Anne was the result of this affair.
In her early years she was close to her mother but was later replaced by her sister Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon. Her father, Louis III de Bourbon, was the grandson of le Grand Condé, and her mother, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, was the eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan.
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