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See also:LAMBALLE, See also:MARIE THERESE See also:LOUISE OF SAVOYCARIGNANO, PRINCESSE DE (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 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. 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.
End of Article: LAMBALLE, MARIE THERESE LOUISE OF SAVOYCARIGNANO, PRINCESSE DE (1749-1792)
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