Philippine Elisabeth Charlotte van Orleans Philippine Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Mademoiselle de Beaujolais, (Versailles, December 18, 1714 - Paris, May 21, 1734) was the fifth daughter of Philip II, the Duke of Orleans and his wife Duchess Françoise Marie of Bourbon. Her mother was the youngest extrajudicial daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous Madame de Montespan mistress. As a member of the ruling Bourbon monarchy (and also as a member of the Orléan family), Philippine Elisabeth was a Princesse du Sang. Life
Philippine was born in the castle of Versailles on December 18, 1714, and was known as Mademoiselle de Beaujolais in her youth. She was raised together with her younger sister, Louise Diane. They grew up in the era of the Régence, the period between 1715 and 1723, that their father as ruler had power in France because King Louis XV of France was still too young to rule himself.
In 1718, the Quadruple Alliance War broke out between France and Spain. Two years later, King Philip V of Spain wanted to make peace through three marriages. His three year old daughter, infant Mariana Victoria would marry the fifteen-year-old King Louis XV. The crown prince of Spain, infant Louis Philip, and another son of Philip V, infant Charles (the later Charles III), would marry daughters of regent Philip of Orléans.
It was decided that Princess Philippine Elisabeth would marry the younger of Philip's sons, baby Charles, because she was one of the few unmarried daughters. In 1726, when she was only eleven years, her sister died when in Spain to the Spanish capital, Madrid, to live there. Her future husband was expected to become the leader of Tuscany and because his older half-brother, Louis Philip, was their father's eldest son, he was expected to become the new king of Spain.
The engagement with Charles was later rejected, so she was taken back to France in 1728. She lived quietly in her mother's favorite residence, the Château de Bagnolet in Paris. There Philippine Elisabeth died on 21 May 1734 at the age of nineteen. She died of the smallpox.
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