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{{Infobox royalty|princess
| name        = Maria Luisa Teresa
| image       = MadamedeLamballe.jpg
| title       = Princess of Lamballe
| full name   = Princess Maria Luisa Teresa di Savoia
| caption     = Marie Louise by Antoine François Callet
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|df=yes|1749|9|8}}
| birth_place = [[Palazzo Carignano]], [[Turin]], [[Italy]]
| house = [[House of Savoy]] (''by birth'')<br/>[[House of Bourbon]] (''by marriage'')
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1792|9|3|1749|9|8}}
| death_place = Murdered in Paris, France
| spouse      = Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe
| father      = Louis Victor, [[Prince of Carignan]]
| mother      = Christine of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
| religion    = [[Roman Catholicism]] 
| signature   = Signature of Princess Marie Louise Thérèse of Savoy, Princess of Lamballe.png
}}

The '''Princess of Lamballe''' (Princess Maria Luisa Teresa; 8 September 1749 – 3 September 1792) was born a [[Duchy of Savoy|Princess of Savoy]] and was later married to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon a member of the [[House of Bourbon]]. In [[France]] she was known as the '''''princesse de Lamballe''''' and was famous for being a close friend of [[Marie Antoinette|Queen Marie Antoinette]]. She like the queen was murdered in the [[French Revolution]]. Her close friendship with the Queen Marie Antoinette caused gossip outside the court that the two were having a [[lesbian]] affair but no evidence of this hold true. This further caused national hatred of the Italian born princess who along with the Duchess of Polignac were part of the queens inner circle.

==Infancy==

The future princess was born in [[Turin]] in 1749 the daughter of a [[Prince of Carignan]] at the ''[[Palazzo Carignano]]''. She was the sixth of eight children. Her father was a distant cousin of [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia|King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia]] and her mother was a sister of the late [[Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg|Queen Polyxena]]. 

==Marriage==

On 31 January 1767, she married by proxy Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe, grandson of Louis XIV's legitimised son, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse, and the only surviving son of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, who had arranged the marriage. During plans for her marriage she was known as ''Mademoiselle de Carignan'' in France. 

In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Marie Thérèse became a widow when her husband died of a venereal disease at the Château de Louveciennes. She inherited her husband's considerable fortune, making her wealthy in her own right.

==Revolution==

Marie Thérèse was by nature reserved and there was never any gossip about her private life. However, in popular anti-monarchist propaganda of the time, she was regularly portrayed in pornographic pamphlets, showing her as the queen's lesbian lover to undermine the public image of the monarchy.

In October 789 the princess lived at the Tuileries Palace in [[Paris]] with the king and queen 


==Titles and styles==

*'''8 September 1749 - 31 January 1767''' ''[[Her Highness]]'' Princess Maria Luisa Teresa of Savoy.
*'''31 January 1767 - 6 May 1768''' ''[[Her Serene Highness]]'' The Princess of Lamballe.  (''Son Altesse Sérénissime Madame la princesse de Lamballe'') 
*'''6 May 1768 - 3 September 1792''' ''[[Her Serene Highness]]'' The Dowager Princess of Lamballe. (''Son Altesse Sérénissime Madame la princesse de Lamballe Douairière''.)

==Name==

She used the name ''Maria Luisa'' or ''Marie Louise'' in French. As a daughter of the Prince of Carignan, she is often ''incorrectly'' given the surname of Savoy-Carignan, which is incorrect as she was born a princess of the [[Duchy of Savoy]] and a daughter of a [[Prince of Carignan]]. The title was merely a courtesy title having no legal jurisdiction over Carignan which was known as ''Carignano'' in Italian any case. So the use of Savoy-Carignan is '''incorrect'''.

==Further reading==
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ST0BAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=princesse+de+lamballe&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5w0NU9q4OKWt7Qb0kYCYCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=princesse%20de%20lamballe&f=false ''La princesse de Lamballe'']

==Other websites==
{{Commonscat-inline|Madame de Lamballe|Princess Maria Luisa Teresa of Savoy, Princess of Lamballe}}

[[:Category:Princes and Princesses of Savoy]]
[[:Category:1749 births]]
[[:Category:1792 deaths]]
[[:Category:People from Turin]]
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[[:Category:People executed by decapitation]]