Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine was heir apparent to the throne of the sovereign Duchy of Lorraine.
Background
His father was the reigning Duke of Lorraine and his mother a member of the House of Bourbon, then ruling the Kingdom of France. He was born at the Château de Lunéville to Léopold, Duke of Lorraine and his wife Élisabeth Charlotte d"Orléans.
Career
He became the Hereditary Prince at his birth in 1704, but died of smallpox in 1711 at the age of seven, unmarried and without descendants. Soon after his birth, on 24 June 1704, the young prince was baptised as a Roman Catholic at the Château de Lunéville. By the time of his birth, however, two sisters had survived.
An epidemic of smallpox was going around Europe in the Spring of 1711.
lieutenant had already killed people like the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I (who died on 17 April) and the Grand Dauphin, Louis (who died on 14 April). Unfortunately, against all efforts, Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine, Louis" older sister, contracted smallpox and died on 4 May.
Before this, she passed on to Louis and Princess Marie Gabrièle Charlotte. Louis died on 10 May and Marie Gabrièle Charlotte died the very next day.
They were both buried in the ducal crypt at the Église Saint-François-des-Cordeliers.
Titles and styles
28 January 1704 – 10 May 1711 His Highness the Hereditary Prince of Lorraine.