PRINCESSE DE See also:MARIE THERESE See also:LOUISE OF SAVOYCARIGNANO See also:LAMBALLE (1749-1792)
, See also:fourth daughter of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Victor of See also:Carignano (d
.
1774) (See also:great-grandfather of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles See also:Albert of See also:Sardinia), and of Christine Henriette of See also:Hesse-Rheinfels-Rothenburg, was See also:born at See also:Turin on the 8th of See also:September 1749
.
In 1767 she was married to Louis See also:Alexandre See also:Stanislaus de See also:Bourbon, See also:prince of See also:Lamballe, son of the See also:duke of Penthievre, a See also:grandson of Louis XIV.'s natural son the See also:count of See also:Toulouse
.
Her See also:husband dying the following See also:year, she retired with her See also:father-in-See also:law to See also:Rambouillet, where she lived until the See also:marriage of the
dauphin, when she returned to See also:court
.
See also:Marie Antoinette, charmed by her See also:gentle and naive See also:manners, singled her out for a See also:companion and confidante
.
The impetuous See also:character of the dauphiness found in Madame de Lamballe that submissive temperament which yields to force of environment, and the two became fast See also:friends
.
After her See also:accession Marie Antoinette, in spite of the king's opposition, had her appointed See also:superintendent of the royal See also:household
.
Between 1776 and 1785 the comtesse de See also:Polignac succeeded in supplanting her; but when the See also:queen tired of the avarice of the Polignacs, she turned again to Madame de Lamballe
.
From 1785 to the Revolution she was Marie Antoinette's closest friend and the pliant See also:instrument of her caprices
.
She came with the queen to the Tuileries and as her See also:salon served as a See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place for the queen and the members of the See also:Assembly whom she wished to gain over, the See also:people believed her to be the soul of all the intrigues
.
After a visit to See also:England in 1791 to See also:appeal for help for the royal See also:family she made her will and returned to the Tuileries, where she continued her services to the queen until the loth of See also:August, when she shared her imprisonment in the See also:Temple
.
On the 19th of August she was transferred to La Force, and having refused to take the See also:oath. against the See also:monarchy, she was on the 3rd of September delivered over to the fury of the populace, after which her See also:head was placed on a See also:pike and carried before the windows of the queen
.
See See also:George See also:Bertin, Madame de Lamballe (See also:Paris, 1888) ; See also:Austin See also:Dobson, Four Frenchwomen (189o); B
.
C
.
See also:Hardy, Princesse de Lamballe (19o8); See also:Comte de See also:Lescure, La Princesse de Lamballe
...
. d'apres See also:des documents inedits (1864); some letters of the princess published by Ch
.
See also:Schmidt in La Revolution fiangaise (vol. xxxix., 1900) ; L
.
Lambeau, Essais sur la mort de madame la princesse de Lamballe (1902); See also:Sir F
.
See also:Montefiore, The Princesse de Lamballe (1896)
.
The See also:Secret See also:Memoirs of the Royal Family of See also:France . now first published from the See also:Journal, Letters and Conversations of the Princesse de Lamballe (See also:London, 2 vols., 1826) have since appeared in various See also:editions in See also:English and in See also:French
.
They are attributed to See also:Catherine See also:Hyde, Marchioness Govion-Broglio-Solari, and are apocryphal
.
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