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User:Simplegoose/Princess of Lamballe
{{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]]
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==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 
ThérèLouise 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 rightHer husband was known to have been fairly promiscuous and died as a result of his many affairs. His widow inherited her husband's considerable fortune, making her wealthy in her own right including a title of duchess in her own right. Her husband was eventually buried at the [[Royal Chapel of Dreux|Chapel of Dreux]] outside Paris.

==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 

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