Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe
Marie-Thérèse Louise of Savoy | |||||
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Princesse de Lamballe | |||||
Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | |||||
Born | Palazzo Carignano, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia | 8 September 1749||||
Died | 3 September 1792 42) Paris, France | (aged||||
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House | Savoy-Carignano | ||||
Father | Louis Victor of Savoy, Prince of Carignano | ||||
Mother | Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg | ||||
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Marie-Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe (Italian: Maria Teresa Luisa; 8 September 1749 – 3 September 1792) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Savoy-Carignano cadet branch of the House of Savoy. She was married at the age of 17 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Prince de Lamballe, the heir to the greatest fortune in France. After her marriage, which lasted a year, she went to the French royal court and became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was killed in the massacres of September 1792 during the French Revolution.