Duchesses of Modena - Charlotte Agla D'Orlans (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charlotte Agla d'Orlans, (20 October 1700 - 19 January 1761) was the Duchess of Modena and Reggio by marriage. She was the third daughter of Philippe d'Orlans, (successively, the Duke of Chartres, the Duke of Orlans, and eventually the Regent of France from 1715 to 1723), and of his wife, Franoise-Marie de Bourbon. She was born a princesse du sang. When a married women, she had ten children. Charlotte Agla d'Orlans was born at the Palais-Royal, her parents' residence in Paris. As a young child, Charlotte Agla was known at court as Mademoiselle de Valois. Her second name comes from the youngest of the three Greek Charites; Aglaea. Her siblings were: At a young age, she and Louise Adlade were placed in the Abbey of Chelles, which her sister would years later 'rule' as abbess. Charlotte Agla was one of eight children. In 1714, she was sent by her parents to Val-de-Gr ce Abbey. At that time, her marriage became the preoccupation of her family. Her older sister, the Duchess of Berry suggested that she marry the young Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, the son of Franois Louis, Prince of Conti and of his wife Marie Thrse de Bourbon, but Louis XIV would not give his consent to the union. In 1715, Charlotte Agla moved into the Palais-Royal with her family. The following year, her mother suggested her marriage to her first cousin, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, prince de Dombes, son of her uncle, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine, but Charlotte Agla refused. Shortly thereafter, Charlotte Agla went to live at the Ch teau de Saint-Cloud with her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, the Dowager Duchess of Orlans who was known as Madame at court. Her grandmother made a pen portrait of her granddaughter at... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10010483