Louise Henriette de Bourbon

Louise Henriette de Bourbon
Duchess of Orléans
Duchess of Étampes
Portrait by Jean Marc Nattier as Hebe, 1744
Born(1726-06-20)20 June 1726
Paris, France
Died9 February 1759(1759-02-09) (aged 32)
Palais-Royal, Paris, France
Burial
SpouseLouis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
Issue
Detail
Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Bathilde, Princess of Condé
Names
Louise Henriette de Bourbon
HouseBourbon-Conti
FatherLouis Armand II, Prince of Conti
MotherLouise Élisabeth de Bourbon
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Signature

Louise Henriette de Bourbon (20 June 1726 – 9 February 1759) was Duchess of Orleans from 1752 until her death in 1759 by marriage to Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Born a French princess du sang (princess of the blood), she was the second child and only daughter of Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, and Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, a granddaughter of King Louis XIV.

The Duke of Orléans and his wife were then addressed as Monsieur le Prince and Madame la Princesse. Louise Henriette was a grandmother of the French monarch Louis-Philippe, nicknamed "the Citizen King". Her descendants include the present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium.