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Louis-Alexandre-Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe (6 September 1747 - 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XIV by the king's illegitimate son, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse. He was the husband of Maria Teresa Louisa of Savoy-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe, queen Marie-Antoinette's friend, who was to meet a tragic death during the French Revolution of 1789. He pre-deceased his father, and died childless. He was the last male of the House of Bourbon-Penthièvre.
Life
Louis was born on 6 September 1747, at the Hôtel de Toulouse, the Paris townhouse of his family.
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Louis-Alexandre-Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe (6 September 1747 - 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XIV by the king's illegitimate son, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse. He was the husband of Maria Teresa Louisa of Savoy-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe, queen Marie-Antoinette's friend, who was to meet a tragic death during the French Revolution of 1789. He pre-deceased his father, and died childless. He was the last male of the House of Bourbon-Penthièvre.
Life
Louis was born on 6 September 1747, at the Hôtel de Toulouse, the Paris townhouse of his family. His father, the Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, was the only child of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, the youngest legitimised son of Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. His mother, Princess Maria Teresa Felicity of Modena, the daughter of the Duke of Modena, also a descendant of Mme de Montespan, and related to the House of Orléans. The prince de Lamballe was the couple's only surviving son. His siblings were:
- Louis Marie de Bourbon (1746-1749);
- Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Châteauvillain, (1748-1755),
- Vincent Marie Louis de Bourbon, comte de Guingamp (1750-1752),
- Marie Louise de Bourbon (1751-1753) ;
- Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Penthièvre, (1753-1821)
- Louis Marie Félicité de Bourbon (born and died in 1754).
From birth, the Prince of Lamballe was expected to inherit the Bourbon-Penthièvre fortune, much of which had been extorted by Louis XIV from his childless cousin la Grande Mademoiselle, and bestowed upon one of Louis XIV's illegitimate sons, the Louis Auguste, duc du Maine. His title, prince de Lamballe, was taken from one of the seigneuries owned by his father; it was neither a sovereign princedom nor a legal title, but a titre de courtoisie, title often assumed by the scions of the Royal Family and the greats in France.
Marriage
His father chose his bride, born Princess Maria Teresa Louisa di Savoia-Carignano. The wedding celebration lasted from 17 January 1767, until 27 January with parties in Turin and Nangis. After three months of happiness, Louis-Alexandre, a young libertine, soon tired of his young wife and resumed his life of débaucherie.
On 6 May 1768, sixteen months after his marriage, the prince de Lamballe died of a venereal disease at the Château de Louveciennes without issue, .
After Death
All of the Bourbon-Penthièvre wealth and land holdings were to be inherited upon the death of their father in 1793 by his younger sister, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon. She had married Louis Philippe Joseph of Orléans, duc de Chartres, one of her mother's Orléans cousins in 1769. She became the duchesse d'Orléans upon the death of her father-in-law in 1785, almost ten years after the death of her brother.
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