Background
A member of the House of Guise founded by Claude, Duke of Guise, she was a Princess of Lorraine as a patrilineal descendant of René II, Duke of Lorraine.
A member of the House of Guise founded by Claude, Duke of Guise, she was a Princess of Lorraine as a patrilineal descendant of René II, Duke of Lorraine.
She was the last wife of Emmanuel Théodose de Louisiana Tour d"Auvergne (1668–1730). The eldest of four children, her other surviving sister Marie Elisabeth Sofie de Lorraine was the wife of Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis. At court, she, like his Lorraine family, held the rank of Foreign Prince, a rank which was below that of the immediate Royal Family and Princes of the Blood.
This also allowed her the style of Her Highness.
Others included the Abbess of Remiremont, Princess of Epinoy and a Queen consort of Sardinia. She was described as very pretty.
Rather tall than short. Neither stout nor slender.
An oval face; a broad forehead.
Black eyes and eyebrows. Brown hair; very wide mouth and very red lips. Married on 21 March 1725, the couple did not have a child until four years later.
They had a daughter named Marie Sophie Charlotte who is an ancestor of the present Dukes of Mouchy, a cadet branch of the House of Noailles.
Her husband died in 1730, leaving Louise Henriette Françoise a widow at the age of 23. Another lover was the Count of Clermont, a grandson of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.
Louise Henriette Françoise died in March 1737 at the age of roughly 30. Marie Sophie Charlotte de Louisiana Tour d"Auvergne (20 December 1729-1726 September 1763) married Charles Just de Beauvau, son of Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau and had issue.
Present Duke of Noailles descends from her.
Titles and styles
1707 – 21 March 1725 Her Highness Mademoiselle de Guise
21 March 1725 – 17 April 1730 Her Highness the Duchess of Bouillon
17 April 1730 – 31 March 1737 Her Highness the Dowager Duchess of Bouillon.