Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon

Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
Duchess of Maine
Portrait by François de Troy as Cleopatra,
c. 1690
Born(1676-11-08)8 November 1676
Hôtel de Condé, Paris, France
Died23 January 1753(1753-01-23) (aged 76)
Hôtel du Maine, Paris, France
Burial26 January 1753
Spouse
(m. 1692; died 1736)
Issue
Among others...
FatherHenri Jules de Bourbon-Condé
MotherAnne Henriette of Bavaria
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Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (8 November 1676 – 23 January 1753) was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang. Forced to marry the Duke of Maine, legitimised son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, she revelled in politics and the arts, and held a popular salon at the Hôtel du Maine as well as at the Château de Sceaux.