Biography
She was the sister of the Prince of Soubise and marshal of France; Marie Louise's niece was Charlotte, princesse de Condé.
Marie Louise was the only daughter of Jules, Prince de Soubise and Anne Julie de Melun. After her parents died of smallpox in 1724 in Paris, she and her brothers lived at Versailles with their uncle, Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné.
Her eldest brother Charles was the same age as Louis XV and became Louis' great companion.
On 4 June 1736, Marie Louise married and the widow of Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan and Walhaim, (1721–1743). The wedding nuptials were carried out in the chapel of the hôtel de Mayenne by her great uncle the Cardinal de Soubise. At the age of 23, Marie Louise became a widow as her husband died of smallpox like her parents. Afterwards, she led a pious and reserved life. The couple had no surviving children.
As a widow, she took Louis Guillaume Le Monnier as a lover; he was the physician to Louis XV .
Her husband was the brother of Louise de Lorraine, wife of the Duke of Bouillon.
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