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Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (Anne Louise Bénédicte; 8 November 1676 – 23 January 1753), was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a ''princesse du sang''. Forced to marry the Duke of Maine, legitimised son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, she revelled in politics and the arts, and held a popular ''salon'' at the Hôtel du Maine as well as at the Château de Sceaux. ==Biography== Louise Bénédicte was born on 8 November 1676 at the Hôtel de Condé〔''Hôtel de Condé'' would ordinarily refer to the principal residence of the House of Condé in Paris. At the time this ''hôtel particulier'' was built, ''Louis Joseph de Bourbon'' was living at the Palais Bourbon with his mistress, Maria Caterina Brignole. The former Condé hôtel occupied the site where the Théâtre de l'Odéon now stands. The hôtel gave its name to the present ''rue de Condé'', on which its forecourt faced. On 26 March 1770, an order in council authorised the execution of the Odéon project, designed by Charles de Wailly and Marie Joseph Peyre on the grounds of the garden of the hôtel of the ''prince de Condé'', who expected to be rid of the property in expectations of setting up more grandly in the Palais Bourbon〕 in Paris. She was the eighth child born to the then Duke and Duchess of Enghien. The name Bénédicte was added in honour of the girls maternal aunt, Benedicta, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was brought up at the Hôtel de Condé with her many sisters and had to endure slave-like conditions under the madness of her father. Her mother, who was pious and gentle, was often beaten by her father as were their staff and her sister Marie Anne, Mademoiselle de Montmorency. When formally addressed, Louise Bénédicte was known as ''Mademosielle d'Enghien''. As a princess of the blood, she possessed the style of ''Serene Highness''. When she was nine years old, her father was given the title of ''Count of Chalorais'', and as a result Louise Bénédicte became known as court as ''Mademoiselle de Charolais''. This appellation would later pass to her niece Louise Anne. She was very outspoken and witty, and had a terrible temper. As she was very small and paid much attention to her appearance, she was nicknamed ''poupée du Sang'' at the French court, literally, "Doll of the Blood", a play on the honorific ''princesse du sang'', princess of the Blood. This nicknamed is sometimes said to have been made up by her sister-in-law the Duchess of Bourbon.〔http://conde.ifrance.com/al.htm ''Doll of the Blood''〕 She was close to her sister Marie Anne, whose marriage to the Duke of Vendôme (1654–1712) she later arranged. Although born with a lame arm, she was generally thought to be the most attractive of the Condé daughters. Despite this ''Madame'', Duchess of Orléans, sister-in-law of Louis XIV called her a "little toad."〔Fraser, Antonia (Lady), ''Love and Louis XIV''〕 Some time after her marriage, the Duchess of Orléans also said that "Madame du Maine is not taller than a child ten years old, and is not well-made. To appear tolerably well, it is necessary for her to keep her mouth shut; for when she opens it, she opens it very wide, and shows her irregular teeth. She is not very stout, uses a great quantity of paint, has fine eyes, a white skin, and fair hair. If she were well-disposed, she might pass, but her wickedness is insupportable".〔The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete, by Élisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans〕 She was very short like her older sister Anne Marie, ''Mademoiselle de Condé''. Louise Bénédicte and her oldest sister Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, known as ''Mademoiselle de Bourbon'' until her marriage to ''le Grand Conti'' in 1688, were considered the most attractive out of the daughters born to the Condés. ''Mademoiselle d'Enghien'' received the typical education given to girls of the nobility in France and was taught reading, writing, dancing, singing and other matters which were considered necessary for a young aristocrat. She spent most of her time in the company of her mother and two older sisters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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