Background
Louis Marie Anne de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 18 November 1674. She was legitimised by her father Louis XIV in January 1676 at the age of almost two.
Louis Marie Anne de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 18 November 1674. She was legitimised by her father Louis XIV in January 1676 at the age of almost two.
She died in infancy. After her legitimisation in 1676, she gained the style of Mademoiselle de Tours from the town of Tours in France. Some three years after her birth, she was joined by another sister, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon – future wife of Philippe d"Orléans Régent of France. Then in 1678 her last full brother was born at Clagny, Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon.
The latter two were made legitimate in November 1681.
She was known as Mademoiselle de Tours till her premature death in 1681, at the age of seven. She died at Bourbon-l"Archambault.
After her death, writing to the duc du Maine, her mother said:
I do not speak to you of my grief, you are naturally too good not to have experienced it for yourself. As for Mademoiselle de Nantes, she has felt it as deeply as if she were twenty and has received the visitis of the Queen and Madame la Dauphine
Her mother was said to have been badly affected by her death but was unable to attend the child"s funeral, which occurred four days after her death, as a result of being otherwise engaged with the incarceration of the duc de Lauzun.
Titles and styles
18 November 1674 – January, 1676 Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon
January, 1676-1615 September 1682 Her Highness Mademoiselle de Tours.