COMTES DE BUSSET.
Cesar de Bourbon, Comte de Busset (1565-1631)
His lover was:
Unknown mistress.
COMTES D'HARCOURT.
Charles de Bourbon, Comte d'Harcourt.
His lover was:
Diane Beauclerk-Lennox:
COMTES & DUCS D'AUVERGNE.
Charles de Bourbon, Duc d'Auvergne (1401-1456)
Husband of:
1. Jeanne de Bournan mar 1430
2. Agnes de Bourgogne mar 1425.
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
PRINCE DE LA ROCHE-SUR-YON.
Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier, Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon.
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
DUCS DE'ESTOUTEVILLE.
Jean de Bourbon, Duc d'Estouteville. (1528-1557)
Duc d'Enghien, Duc d'Estouteville, Comte de Soissons.
Husband of: Marie de Bourbon, Duchesse d'Estouteville (1539-1601) mar 1557.
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress:
Natural offspring:
1. Unnamed de Valency (d.1562)
COMTES DE CHAROLAIS.
Marguerite Caron de Rancurel, Dame de Lassone (d.1800)
Natural offspring:
1. Marie-Marguerite de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Bourbon (1752-1830) married a. Comte Denis-Nicolas du Puget (d.1777), mar 1769 & b. Col. Lewis Toujard.
COMTES DE CLERMONT.
Son of Louis III de Bourbon & Louise-Françoise de Bourbon
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| Louis de Bourbon Count of Clermont @Wikipedia |
(1709-1771)
His lovers were:
1) Elisabeth Leduc, Marquise de Tourvoie (1720-1792)
French dancer.
Lover in 1741.
" . . . In 1742 Clermont put Camargo aside and stole the dancer Leduc from President de Rieux . . . of the Paris Parlement. . ." When Leduc gave birth to his child eighteen months later, the count had grown so emotionally attached to her that he set her up as the official mistress of his estate at Berny. Eventually he bought her the marquisate of Tourvoie. Police reported that Leduc was 'absolute in the household' and that 'the people, even of quality, who compose the prince's court have all the deference that one should have for an honest woman.' Leduc had come a long way, considering she was the out-of-wedlock daughter of a soldier and had spent her early years as a common prostitute." (Daughters of Eve: 36)
French dancer.
Lover in 1741.
" . . . In 1742 Clermont put Camargo aside and stole the dancer Leduc from President de Rieux . . . of the Paris Parlement. . ." When Leduc gave birth to his child eighteen months later, the count had grown so emotionally attached to her that he set her up as the official mistress of his estate at Berny. Eventually he bought her the marquisate of Tourvoie. Police reported that Leduc was 'absolute in the household' and that 'the people, even of quality, who compose the prince's court have all the deference that one should have for an honest woman.' Leduc had come a long way, considering she was the out-of-wedlock daughter of a soldier and had spent her early years as a common prostitute." (Daughters of Eve: 36)
Marquise de Tourvoie's other lover.
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1. Gabriel-Bernard de Rieux, Comte de Rieux.
2) Louise-Henriette-Francoise de Lorraine (1707-1737), Duchesse de Bouillon.
2) Louise-Henriette-Francoise de Lorraine (1707-1737), Duchesse de Bouillon.
Lover from 1730.
"The amorous life of Louis de Bourbon (1709-1771), Count de Clermont, a prince of the blood, abbot of Saint-Germain de Pres, and some marshal of the royal armies, may not have been typical in all respects, but it reveals a good deal more about libertinism as practiced in the eighteenth century than the novels do. Just out of his teen years, the young lord had the experienced duchess of Bouillon for a lover. She, however, was the last court lady with whom he had anything more than a passing liaison. The stage, in which he had a deep interest as an amateur actor and playwright, became his field of conquest. . . ." (Daughters of Eve: 35)
"The lover en titre of this delightful lady was the Comte de Clermont, one of the innumerable princes of the blood. She inspired him with 'a sad and stormy passion'---a thing not to be expected in those days of red heels, black mouches, swinish lust, and artificial sentiment. Both husband and lover had to look on or idly protest while the Duchess took unto herself paramour after paramour from the ranks of the Comedie Francaise, for the actors were as much sought after by the amorous ladies of the capital as the actresses were by their husbands. This great institution was most happily named. One, Tribou, when it came to his turn to pick up the handkerchief, is said to have discovered a preference for the melancholy Adrienne. The Duchess, rebuffed, passed on to the young Grandval. Did she forgive the slight? There were those looking on---at least Barbier---who thought not." (The Prodigious Marshal)
Louise-Henriette-Francoise de Lorraine's other lovers:
Her step-son Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne
"Though the Memoires just quoted are somewhat apocryphal, the reported liaison between Charles-Godefroy and his stepmother was authentic enough. Even before he reached his mid-twenties, Marie-Charlotte's husband had become notorious for his wenching, gambling, and general penchant for drunken revelry. Maurepas records, for example, a much talked-about brawl which took place in November 1731 at Navarre, the famous Bouillon country seat near Evreux, between the young Duc de Bouillon and the Duc de Durfort. Both parties suffered serious knife wounds in the incident." (The Love of a Prince: 28)
Maurice, Comte de Saxe.
"It may have been in the wings or the draughty passages of the Comedie that her grace came upon M. de Saxe cuddling la petite Cartou
"In 1730 the old Duc Emmanuel-Theodose died. Now two Duchesses de Bouillon reigned in the palatial residence on the Quai Malaquais, the newly widowed dowager duchess and Marie-Charlotte. But if the life of Marie-Charlotte could be fairly described as solitaire et obscure, that was hardly the case with Charles-Godefroy's attractive and lively young stepmother. Unfortunately, despite marked differences in character, the two women were occasionally confused by chroniclers of the day.
"Readers familiar with the life of the famous eighteenth-century actress, Adrienne Le Couvreur, will have by now recognized the dowager duchess in question. A veritable Messaline moderne, she had already achieved notoriety before the death of her aging and gouty husband. Beautiful and dazzlingly cynical, she had rapidly accumulated a long list of lovers, including the Comte de Clermont, a prince du sang, the celebrated Maurice de Saxe, the actors Quinault-Dufresne and Grandval, the Opera singer Denis-Francois Tribou, and apparently many others, not excluding, it was rumoured, the occasional bateleur, knock-about comedian, or well-muscled street acrobat as ready to perform his tricks in the Duchesse's bedroom at the Hotel de Bouillon as in the square in front of Notre-Dame. Voltaire held a very high opinion of her ability as a drama critic . . . ." (The Love of a Prince: 36)
An excessively gallant dowager duchess.
"Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine, duchesse de Bouillon, was 'capricious, violent, quick tempered, and excessively gallant: her tastes stretch from the prince to the comedian', according to Aisse. She was described as very pretty; rather tall than short; neither stout nor slender; an oval face; a broad forehead; black eyes and eyebrows; brown hair; very wide mouth and very red lips.
"Her husband died in 1730, leaving her a widow at the age of 23. She later became the mistress of her stepson, Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, who was one year older than she was. . . . ." (Louis XIV and the Land of Love and Adventure: 1700 to 1715)
Physical appearance & personal qualities.
"Enters now upon the scene that very great lady, Louis Henriette Francoise de Lorraine, daughter of the Prince d'Harcourt, and since 1725 wife of Emmanuel Theodose de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon. At this time in her early twenties she is thus described by the Abbe Bouret, of whom we shall hear a great deal presently: 'Very lovely, neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, her face oval with a rounded chin and a high forehead; her eyes large and black, het hair and eyebrows dark; her mouth red and pouting, with a black mole near her right eye.' A most seductive lady in fact, and above all things concerned to use her charms for the gratification of her own appetites. She was her husband's fourth wife and forty years younger. The Duke's reflections were bitterer than Sir Peter Teazle's. The letter-writers of the time refer to frightful scenes at the little ducal court; Adrienne found them too shocking to relate." (The Prodigious Marshal)
3) Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo (1710-1770)
French-Belgian dancer
French-Belgian dancer
Lover in 1737-1742.
Premiere danseuse at the Paris Opera.
" . . . In 1737 he was linked with one of the most sought-after women of her day, the dancer Mademoiselle Camargo. Rather than admiring her from his seat at the Opera and having the rest of the aristocracy bear witness to his conquests from their boxes, Clermont made her retire and, according to a police inspector, even saw to it that the neighbors did not catch a glimpse of her through a window. He spent so much satisfying her whims that he had to will his duchy of Chateauroux to the king to clear his debts. He had two children with her, and the monks of Saint-Germain complained that their real abbot was 'a whore of the Opera.' . . . ." (Daughters of Eve: 35)
"With the Comte de Clermont, Mlle. de Camargo reached the highest point of her fortunes. Her lover could refuse her nothing. When his monastic revenues proved inadequate to satisfy her caprices, he ran into debts, and when his credit was exhausted, he had recourse to stratagems to obtain money from his mother. . . Such was the count's infatuation for his enchantress that he was 'even jealous of the pleasure which the public shared with him in seeing her dance,' and, in 1736, insisted on her quitting the Opera, to the despair of all Paris. . . ." (Queens of the French Theatre)
COMTES DE SOISSONS.
Louis de Bourbon
Comte de Soissons
(1604-1641)
Comte de Soissons, de Clermont et de Dreux.
His lover was:
Elisabeth des Hayes.
Natural offspring:
1. Louis-Henri batard de Bourbon-Soissons (1640-1703)
Comte de Noyers, Comte de Dunois, Prince de Neuchatel
married Angelique-Cunegonde de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Mademoiselle de Luxembourg.
Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons.
His lover was:
Anne-Marie Bohier
"Charles's illegitimate daughters by Anne-Marie Bohier, daughter of Antoine, seigneur de la Rochebourdet, took the veil: Charlotte, bâtarde de Soissons (d.1626), became abbess of Fontevrault and Catherine, bâtarde de Soissons (d.1651), became abbess of Perrigne in Maine." (Wikipedia)
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| Charles de Bourbon Count of Soissons 1600-1602 |
French aristocrat & military commander.
Count of Soissons, Count of Dreux
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Anne de Montafie Comtesse de Soissons 17th c. |
Husband of: Anne de Montafie, Comtesse de Clermont-en-Beauvais (1577-1644), Comtesse de Soissons, Countess of Montafie, Dame de Bonnetable & Luce. mar 1601.
His lover was:
Jeanne-Catherine Bohier
Natural offspring:
1. Charlotte de Bourbon (d.1626), Abbesse de Maubuisson.
2. Catherine de Bourbon (d.1561), Abbesse de La Perigne.
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