page_title: Louise Anne de Bourbon
section_title: Reign of Louis XV
hierarchical_section_title: Louise Anne de Bourbon / Biography / Reign of Louis XV
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context_page_description: Louise Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Charolais was a French noblewoman, the daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé. Her father was the grandson of le Grand Condé, while her mother, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan.
context_section_description: As the years passed, Louise Anne constantly intrigued for political prominence.  She would later help her cousin Louis XV in his search for new mistresses.  It was common gossip at the time that Louise Anne was actually one of the king's former mistresses; that she was his first unofficial sexual partner after his wife, possibly as early as the late 1720s, and that they had an on-and-off-affair for a few years and that she introduced him to prospective new mistresses.   However, other contemporaries claim that while Louise Anne did wish to become his lover and did attempt to seduce him, she never actually succeeded to become his mistress.   The king did, in any case, enjoy her company, and she belonged to his circle of personal friends and frequently attended court.    
  Louise Anne's older sister, Louise Élisabeth, introduced Madame de Pompadour to the French court in the 1740s.
  Louise Anne owned several estates. In 1735, she became the owner of the Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais in Paris, which became her townhouse.    She would later sell the lands at Vallery, in the Bourgogne province of France, which had been the traditional burial place of her Condé ancestors.    She also owned various châteaux such as the one at Athis outside Paris.   She later sold the estate of Charolais to the Crown and in return got land in Palaiseau, which further augmented her personal real estate holdings.
  Louise Anne died in Paris, at the Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais, at the age of sixty-two. She was buried in the Carmelite Convent of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques. Her brother, Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, and her two sisters, Marie Anne de Bourbon and Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, were also buried there.
caption: The Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais
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