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ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON MAINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNE See also:LOUISE BENEDICTE DE See also:BOURBON See also:MAINE  , DucHESSE DU (1676–1753), daughter of See also:Henri Jules de See also:Bourbon, See also:prince de See also:Conde and See also:Anne of See also:Bavaria, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:November 1676 . On the 19th of See also:March 1692 she married See also:Louis Auguste de Bourbon, duc du See also:Maine, son of Louis XIV. and Mme de See also:Montespan . The duchesse du Maine held a little See also:court at Sceaux, where she gave brilliant entertainments and immersed herself in See also:political intrigues . Displeased with the See also:action of the See also:regent See also:Orleans in degrading the illegitimate See also:children of Louis XIV. from their See also:precedence above the peers of See also:France, she induced her See also:husband to join in the Cellamare See also:conspiracy for the transference of the regency to the See also:king of See also:Spain . The See also:plot, however, was discovered, and she was imprisoned in 1719 . The following See also:year she returned to Sceaux, where she resumed her See also:salon and gathered See also:round her a brilliant See also:company of wits and poets . She died in See also:Paris on the 23rd of See also:January 1753 . See See also:General de Piepape, La Duchesse du Maine (191o) .

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