Louise Marie d'Orléans (5 August 1726 – 14 May 1728) was a French princess by birth.

Biography

Louise Marie d'Orléans was born at the Palais-Royal to Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans and his Duchess, the Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, who died three days after giving birth.

Her father was a second cousin of the then King Louis XV

Louis XV of France

Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...

, and a great-grandson of Louis XIII. Her mother was the last child of the famous general Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Louis William, Margrave of Baden was the ruler of Baden in Germany and chief commander of the Imperial army. He was also known as Türkenlouis...

. Louise Marie was initially known at court as Mademoiselle d'Orléans and, after the death of her father's first cousin Louise Anne de Bourbon, as Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle may refer to:* The French-language equivalent of "miss" * "Mademoiselle Juliette", a 2007 song by French singer Alizée...

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She died at the age of 1 year and 8 months at the Château de Saint-Cloud

Château de Saint-Cloud

The Château de Saint-Cloud was a Palace in France, built on a magnificent site overlooking the Seine at Saint-Cloud in Hauts-de-Seine, about 10 kilometres west of Paris. Today it is a large park on the outskirts of the capital and is owned by the state, but the area as a whole has had a large...

 near Paris, and was buried in the Val-de-Grâce

Val-de-Grâce

This article describes the hospital and former abbey. For the main article on Mansart and Lemercier's central church, see Church of the Val-de-Grâce....

 Convent in Paris.

Ancestors