Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier
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Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans de Montpensier, duchesse de Montpensier (May 29, 1627 - April 3, 1693) was a French princess by birth.
She was generally known as Mademoiselle before the birth of Mademoiselle d'Orléans and then known as La Grande Mademoiselle. She is also well remembered for her voluminous memoirs of the reign of her younger cousin, King Louis XIV of France.
Memoirs
For the rest of her life, she gave herself to religious duties, and finished her Mémoires, which extend to within seven years of her death (April 3, 1693), and which she had begun when she was in disgrace thirty years earlier. These Mémoires (Amsterdam, 1729) are of very considerable merit and interest, though, or perhaps because, they are extremely egotistical and often extremely desultory. They are to be found in the great collection of Joseph François Michaud and Jean Joseph François Poujoulat, and have been frequently edited apart. Her Eight Beatitudes has been edited by E. Rodocanachi as Un Ouvrage de piété inconnu (1908).
