Louise Anne de Bourbon, Countess of Charolais was a French noblewoman, the daughter of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé.
Background
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. Born at the Palace of Versailles, Louise Anne was the fourth child and third daughter of her parents.
Career
Her eldest sisters were Marie Anne Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon and Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon. Louise Anne never married. Another proposed husband was the Duke of Chartres, the son of the Regent, and heir to the House of Orléans.
Frère ange de Charolois
Dis-nous par quelle aventure
Le cordon de Saint François
Sert à Vénus de ceinture.
As the years passed, Louise Anne constantly intrigued for political prominence. lieutenant was common gossip at the time that Louise Anne was actually one of the king"s former mistresses, while Louise Anne"s older sister, Louise Élisabeth, introduced Madame de Pompadour to the French court in the 1740s.
Her mother, who had built the Palais Bourbon in Paris, died in 1743 at the age of seventy. 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. Titles and styles
23 June 1695 – 6 July 1713 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Sens
6 July 1713 – 14 May 1728 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Charolais
14 May 1728 – 9 July 1750 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle
9 July 1750 – 8 April 1758 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Charolais.