Monday, August 17, 2020

Conde & Conti Princesses--

Marie-Anne de Bourbon
Duchess of Bourbon
@Wikipedia
Duchesse de Bourbon
(1689-1720)

Also known as:
Mademoiselle de Conti.


Profile given by the Duchess of Orleans.
"The Duke’s wife is not an ill-looking person: she has good eyes, and would be very well if she had not a habit of stretching and poking out her neck. Her shape is horrible; she is quite crooked; her back is curved into the form of an S. I observed her one day, through curiosity, when the Dauphine was helping her to dress.

"She is a wicked devil; treacherous in every way, and of a very dangerous temper. Upon the whole, she is not good for much. Her falsehood was the means of preventing the Duke from marrying one of my granddaughters. Being the intimate friend of Madame de Berri, who was very desirous that one of her sisters should marry the Duke and the other the Prince de Conti, she promised to bring about the marriage, provided Madame de Berri would say nothing of it to the King or to me. After having imposed this condition, she told the King that Madame de Berri and my son were planning a marriage without his sanction; in order to punish them she begged the King to marry the Duke to herself, which was actually done.

"Thanks to her good sense, she lives upon tolerable terms with her husband, although he has not much affection for her. They follow each their own inclinations; they are not at all jealous of each other, and it is said they have separate beds.

"She causes a great many troubles and embarrassments to her relation, the young Princesse de Conti, and perfectly understands tormenting folks." (Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency: 286)

Her lover was:
Chevalier du Challar.
"The new couple, despite being married for seven years, were never to have any children. During her marriage, she had an affair with one Chevalier du Challar. Marie Anne died in Paris in 1720 at the age of 30." (Wikipedia)

"After the death of the younger Duchess, the Princesse de Conti, her mother, wrote to a Chevalier named Du Challar, who was the lover of the deceased, to beg him to come and see her, as he was the only object left connected with ther daughter, and assuring him that he might reckon upon her services in everything that depended upon her. It was the younger Duchess who was so fond of Lasse, and who had been so familiar with him at a masked ball." (Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency: 286)
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