Princess. Françoise d'Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, was born at the Palais-Royal in Paris. She was the fourth of six children, and the elder twin of her sister Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d'Orléans. At birth, she received the title Mademoiselle d'Orléans. As she was legitimately descended from Louis XIII along the male line, Françoise was a "princesse du sang." Her mother inherited one of the largest fortunes in Europe. Françoise died in 1782 at the Palais-Royal, before the French Revolution. Her father, who assumed the name "Philippe Égalité during the Revolution, was guillotined in 1793. Her oldest brother Louis Philippe, known as "Général Égalité" during the Revolution, eventually became the King of the French, and renovated and renamed the Chapelle Royale de Dreux, her eventual resting place, in 1830.
Princess. Françoise d'Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, was born at the Palais-Royal in Paris. She was the fourth of six children, and the elder twin of her sister Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d'Orléans. At birth, she received the title Mademoiselle d'Orléans. As she was legitimately descended from Louis XIII along the male line, Françoise was a "princesse du sang." Her mother inherited one of the largest fortunes in Europe. Françoise died in 1782 at the Palais-Royal, before the French Revolution. Her father, who assumed the name "Philippe Égalité during the Revolution, was guillotined in 1793. Her oldest brother Louis Philippe, known as "Général Égalité" during the Revolution, eventually became the King of the French, and renovated and renamed the Chapelle Royale de Dreux, her eventual resting place, in 1830.
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