Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741)

Marie Anne de Bourbon (16 October 1697 – 11 August 1741) was Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine (Superintendent of the Household) to the French queen Queen Marie. She was the daughter of Louis III, Prince of Condé. Her father was the grandson of le Grand Condé and her mother, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes, was the eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. At the court of King Louis XIV and his successor King Louis XV, sh was simply styled Mademoiselle de Clermont.

Secret marriage
Marie Anne secretly married her lover, the Duke of Joyeuse, in 1719. Her husband, Louis de Melun, was the son of the Prince of Epinoy an a frae Lorraine. Louis was also a great great grandson of Gabrielle d'Estrées. He was married to Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne, a daughter of the Duke of Bouillon and granddaughter of Marie Anne Mancini. In 1724, during a hunting party at Marie Anne's ancestral home, the Château de Chantilly, Louis disappeared and his body was never found. Naturally distraught, Marie Anne remained unmarried and had no issue.

Titles and styles

 * 16 October 1697 11 August 1741 Her Most Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Clermont, Princess of the French royal blood.