Louise Henriette de Bourbon

Louise Henriette de Bourbon
Duchess of Orléans Duchess of Étampes
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier traditionally, but probably incorrectly, identified as the princesse de Bourbon-Conti[1]
Born	(1726-06-20)20 June 1726 Paris, France
Died	9 February 1759(1759-02-09) (aged 32) Palais-Royal, Paris, France
Burial	Val-de-Grâce, Paris
Spouse	Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
Issue Detail	Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans Bathilde, Princess of Condé
Names Louise Henriette de Bourbon
House	Bourbon-Conti
Father	Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti
Mother	Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon
Religion	Roman Catholicism
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Louise Henriette de Bourbon (20 June 1726 – 9 February 1759), Mademoiselle de Conti at birth, was a French princess, who, by marriage, became Duchess of Chartres (1743–1752), then Duchess of Orléans (1752–1759) upon the death of her father-in-law. On 4 February 1752, her husband became the head of the House of Orléans, and the First Prince of the Blood (Premier prince du sang), the most important personage after the immediate members of the royal family.

The new Duke of Orléans and his wife were then addressed as Monsieur le Prince and Madame la Princesse. Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, was a grandmother of the French monarch Louis-Philippe King of the French, "the Citizen King". Her descendants include the present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium.