Marie de Nemours

Marie de Nemours by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1705)

Marie de Nemours, originally known as Marie d'Orléans Longueville (1625–1707) was the daughter of Henry II of Orléans, duke of Longueville. After the death of her brother Jean Louis Charles d'Orléans-Longueville in 1694 she succeeded him as Princess of Neuchâtel.

Through her marriage with Henri II, Duke of Nemours, she became Duchess of Nemours. She is a famous personage. At an early age she was involved in the first Fronde, which was directed by her father and her stepmother Anne Genevieve de Bourbon-Conde, the celebrated duchesse de Longueville. She married the Duke of Nemours in 1657, and when he died in 1659, leaving her childless, the rest of her life was mainly spent in contesting her inheritance with her stepmother.

She left some interesting Memoires, which are published by C. B. Petitot in the Collection complete des memoires (1819–1829).

She was the muse for Jean Loret's Muse historique (1650, 1660, 1665), a collection of weekly gazette burlesque reporting on the news of Paris society and the court of Louis XIV in the form of letters to Marie d'Orléans Longueville which are considered an early example of French journalism.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Marie de Nemours Orléans-Longueville Cadet branch of the House of Valois Born: 1625 Died: 16 June 1707
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Preceded by John Louis Charles	Princess of Neuchâtel 1694 — 1707	Succeeded by Frederick I