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unusual facts about Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe



Château d'Arc-en-Barrois

The Arc-en-Barrois area belonged in 1622 to Nicolas de L'Hospital, Duke of Vitry; it was bought in 1679 from his son by Count Morstein who ceded it in 1693 to Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, whose son Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, inherited the estate.

Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse

(That fort has been partially reconstructed adjacent to its original site near the city of Wetumpka, Alabama, in the United States.)

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

The wedding celebration lasted from 17 January 1767, until 27 January with feasts in Turin and Nangis.

He was buried in the family crypt in 13th-century Saint-Lubin church of the village of Rambouillet near the Château de Rambouillet, his father's favorite residence.

At the death of his older brother Louis Marie de Bourbon, the Prince of Lamballe became the heir to the Penthièvre fortune, much of which had been extorted by Louis XIV from his childless cousin la Grande Mademoiselle, and bestowed upon Louis XIV's legitimised elder son, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine.

After the ceremony, for their honeymoon, Louis Alexandre and his bride stayed at the Château de Nangis.

On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, Penthièvre transferred the nine caskets containing the remains of his parents, the comte and the comtesse de Toulouse, his wife, Maria Teresa d'Este, and six of their seven children, from the small medieval village church of Rambouillet, to the chapel of the Collégiale Saint-Étienne in Dreux.


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