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In 1765, named the heir of his paternal aunt, Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, Louis Joseph received generous pensions which Élisabeth Alexandrine had in turn acquired from her cousin, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon. In that same year, Louis Joseph repurchased the Palais Bourbon, previously owned by his family, from King Louis XV, and decided ...
Louis Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy (13 September 1751 – 22 March 1761), was a French prince of the House of Bourbon, and as such was second-in-line to the throne of France, ranking behind his father, the Dauphin Louis, himself the son of Louis XV and his popular Queen, Marie Leszczyńska. Although Louis was his parents' first son to be ...
Birth certificate of Louis Joseph Xavier François. Louis Joseph Xavier François de France was born at the Palace of Versailles on 22 October 1781. [1] He was baptized on the day of his birth, in the chapel of the Palace of Versailles by Louis René Édouard de Rohan, Grand Chaplain of France, in the presence of Honoré Nicolas Brocquevielle, priest of Notre Dame de Versailles: his godfather ...
The French took possession of the island in the 17th century, naming it Isle Bourbon after the House of Bourbon which then ruled France. To break with this name, which was too attached to the Ancien Régime , the National Convention decided on 23 March 1793 [ 5 ] to rename the territory Réunion Island.
The first-known holder of the comital title was Bouchard Ratepilate. The county passed by marriage to various houses, coming in 1372 to a junior branch of the House of Bourbon. In 1514, Vendôme was made a duchy-peerage. In 1589, the then Duke of Vendôme came to the throne as Henry IV of France, and the title passed into the royal domain.
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736–1818), member of the House of Bourbon; Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (1650–1671), Prince of Lorraine; Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654–1712), French general and Marshal of France; Louis Joseph Bahin (1813–1857), American painter in the Antebellum South; Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712–1759 ...
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Charlotte married Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé in a ceremony at the Palace of Versailles on 3 May 1753. Charlotte's father reportedly gave a dowry of 20 million livres . [ 2 ] Louis Joseph had been the prince de Condé since 1740 when at the age of four he lost his father, Louis Henri, Prince de Condé .