Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon was a French princess of the blood and a daughter of Monsieur le Duc.
Background
Her father was the grandson of the Grand Condé and her mother, Madame la Duchesse was the eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV of France and his Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. Élisabeth Alexandrine was born in Paris in 1705, she was one of nine children and her parents" youngest daughter.
Career
From birth, she was known at court as Mademoiselle de Gex but would later take on the courtesy title of Mademoiselle de Sens. She was known as Mlle de Sens most of her life. As a princesse du sang, Alexandrine was addressed with the style of Her Serene Highness.
Élisabeth Alexandrine was never to play a very prominent political role.
In 1734, she bought the Hôtel de Noirmoutier on the rue de Grenelles in Paris. She also bought much land surrounding the hôtel and considerably enlarged the property.
In 1744, she bought the estates and lordships of Villegénis and Igny. She remodelled the château de Villegénis in 1755.
The cost of the remodelling was 430,000 livres.
To raise that sum, she sold the estate and seigneurie of Vallery, the traditional burial place of the Condé family, to M. and Madame de Launay, for 280,000 livres. François Desportes, painter of the king"s hunts, supplied large canvases for the appartements. Élisabeth Alexandrine died in Paris.
She was buried at the Carmelite Convent of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris.
Titles and styles
5 September 1705 – 15 April 1765 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Gex and later on Mademoiselle de Sens.