Madame La Duchesse
This style was used for the wife of Monsieur le Duc. The most famous holder of this honorific was:
- 1685–1709 : Louise-Françoise de Bourbon (1673–1743) - The illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan, she was married in May 1685, to Louis III, Prince of Condé, then known by the courtesy title of duc de Bourbon. Since his style at court was Monsieur le Duc, she became known as Madame la Duchesse. She later held onto the style even in her widowhood when she was the Princess of Condé. She was later known as Madame la Duchesse Douairière.
Others included:
- 1713–1720 : Marie Anne de Bourbon (1689–1720) - first wife of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon;
- 1728–1741 : Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714–1741) second wife of the Duke of Bourbon;
- 1753–1760 : Charlotte Élisabeth Godefride de Rohan (1737–1760) - wife of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
- 1770–1818 : Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans (1750–1820) - wife of the last Prince of Condé.
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Madame la Duchesse. She was the wife of Monsieur le Duc
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Marie Anne, Princess of Condé; Madame la Duchesse due to the Condé loss of Mme la Princesse to the House of Orléans
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Bathilde d'Orléans
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