This memorial is designed to serve as a "historical" cenotaph.
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Formal title, 19th-century French: De très haut très puissant et très excellent prince Louis-Marie-Félicité de Bourbon, fils de LL. AA. SS. {Leurs Altesses Royales -ed.} Mgr le duc et Mme la duchesse de Penthièvre.
SOURCE (GOOGLE BOOKS & the Library of the University of California, Berkeley): "Mémoires de la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir", Tome IX, pages 359, 360, par la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, 1889, Librairie Petrot-Garnier, Place des Halles 12 et 14, Chartres.
Source [link]: https://books.google.com/books?id=K5k4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA359&
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In 1783, the "Duke of Penthièvre" [i.e. Louis Jean Marie, Duke of Penthièvre, de Bourbon] sold his domain of "Rambouillet", to "Louis XVI". On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, the Duke of Penthièvre transferred nine (9) caskets containing the remains of: his parents, Louis Alexandre (Count of Toulouse) & Marie Victoire (de Noailles); his wife, Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena; and six (6) of their seven (7) children ... from the small medieval village church (next to the castle in Rambouillet), to the chapel of the "Collégiale Saint-Étienne de Dreux".
Penthièvre [himself] died in March 1793, and his body was laid to rest in the crypt beside his parents. Just eight months later, on November 21 of that same year (in the midst of the French Revolution), a mob desecrated the crypt, and all ten (10) bodies were dumped into a mass grave: situated in "Chanoines Cemetery", of the "Collégiale Saint Étienne". In 1816, the daughter of the Duke of Penthièvre, the "Duchess of Orléans", had a new chapel built on the site of the mass grave (by then, parts of all ten bodies had been located in Chanoines cemetery, and their remains were exhumed for transfer to a final resting place for her family, in the "new" chapel). The Duchess buried the love of her life ("Rouzet") here, in 1820. After protracted post-Revolution legal battles, most of her inheritance was recovered. She died at her castle at Ivry-sur-Seine in 1821. Nine years later (in 1830), her son, "Louis Philippe d'Orléans" became, "King of the French." He made improvements to the chapel that his mother had built, and he renamed it.
Thus, the remains of "Louis Marie Félicité de Bourbon" were first laid to rest in 1754, then moved (here), in 1783. The remains were desecrated in 1793, hurriedly buried in a mass grave (a second move), then located, exhumed, and re-entombed by 1816 (moved for a third time), but into the royal chapel of "Saint Louis", later renamed by "Louis Philippe" as the, "Chapelle Royale de Dreux."
c.f. FAG memorial #84850529
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Formal title, 19th-century French: De très haut très puissant et très excellent prince Louis-Marie-Félicité de Bourbon, fils de LL. AA. SS. {Leurs Altesses Royales -ed.} Mgr le duc et Mme la duchesse de Penthièvre.
SOURCE (GOOGLE BOOKS & the Library of the University of California, Berkeley): "Mémoires de la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir", Tome IX, pages 359, 360, par la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, 1889, Librairie Petrot-Garnier, Place des Halles 12 et 14, Chartres.
Source [link]: https://books.google.com/books?id=K5k4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA359&
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In 1783, the "Duke of Penthièvre" [i.e. Louis Jean Marie, Duke of Penthièvre, de Bourbon] sold his domain of "Rambouillet", to "Louis XVI". On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, the Duke of Penthièvre transferred nine (9) caskets containing the remains of: his parents, Louis Alexandre (Count of Toulouse) & Marie Victoire (de Noailles); his wife, Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena; and six (6) of their seven (7) children ... from the small medieval village church (next to the castle in Rambouillet), to the chapel of the "Collégiale Saint-Étienne de Dreux".
Penthièvre [himself] died in March 1793, and his body was laid to rest in the crypt beside his parents. Just eight months later, on November 21 of that same year (in the midst of the French Revolution), a mob desecrated the crypt, and all ten (10) bodies were dumped into a mass grave: situated in "Chanoines Cemetery", of the "Collégiale Saint Étienne". In 1816, the daughter of the Duke of Penthièvre, the "Duchess of Orléans", had a new chapel built on the site of the mass grave (by then, parts of all ten bodies had been located in Chanoines cemetery, and their remains were exhumed for transfer to a final resting place for her family, in the "new" chapel). The Duchess buried the love of her life ("Rouzet") here, in 1820. After protracted post-Revolution legal battles, most of her inheritance was recovered. She died at her castle at Ivry-sur-Seine in 1821. Nine years later (in 1830), her son, "Louis Philippe d'Orléans" became, "King of the French." He made improvements to the chapel that his mother had built, and he renamed it.
Thus, the remains of "Louis Marie Félicité de Bourbon" were first laid to rest in 1754, then moved (here), in 1783. The remains were desecrated in 1793, hurriedly buried in a mass grave (a second move), then located, exhumed, and re-entombed by 1816 (moved for a third time), but into the royal chapel of "Saint Louis", later renamed by "Louis Philippe" as the, "Chapelle Royale de Dreux."
c.f. FAG memorial #84850529
This memorial is designed to serve as a "historical" cenotaph.
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Formal title, 19th-century French: De très haut très puissant et très excellent prince Louis-Marie-Félicité de Bourbon, fils de LL. AA. SS. {Leurs Altesses Royales -ed.} Mgr le duc et Mme la duchesse de Penthièvre.
SOURCE (GOOGLE BOOKS & the Library of the University of California, Berkeley): "Mémoires de la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir", Tome IX, pages 359, 360, par la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, 1889, Librairie Petrot-Garnier, Place des Halles 12 et 14, Chartres.
Source [link]: https://books.google.com/books?id=K5k4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA359&
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In 1783, the "Duke of Penthièvre" [i.e. Louis Jean Marie, Duke of Penthièvre, de Bourbon] sold his domain of "Rambouillet", to "Louis XVI". On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, the Duke of Penthièvre transferred nine (9) caskets containing the remains of: his parents, Louis Alexandre (Count of Toulouse) & Marie Victoire (de Noailles); his wife, Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena; and six (6) of their seven (7) children ... from the small medieval village church (next to the castle in Rambouillet), to the chapel of the "Collégiale Saint-Étienne de Dreux".
Penthièvre [himself] died in March 1793, and his body was laid to rest in the crypt beside his parents. Just eight months later, on November 21 of that same year (in the midst of the French Revolution), a mob desecrated the crypt, and all ten (10) bodies were dumped into a mass grave: situated in "Chanoines Cemetery", of the "Collégiale Saint Étienne". In 1816, the daughter of the Duke of Penthièvre, the "Duchess of Orléans", had a new chapel built on the site of the mass grave (by then, parts of all ten bodies had been located in Chanoines cemetery, and their remains were exhumed for transfer to a final resting place for her family, in the "new" chapel). The Duchess buried the love of her life ("Rouzet") here, in 1820. After protracted post-Revolution legal battles, most of her inheritance was recovered. She died at her castle at Ivry-sur-Seine in 1821. Nine years later (in 1830), her son, "Louis Philippe d'Orléans" became, "King of the French." He made improvements to the chapel that his mother had built, and he renamed it.
Thus, the remains of "Louis Marie Félicité de Bourbon" were first laid to rest in 1754, then moved (here), in 1783. The remains were desecrated in 1793, hurriedly buried in a mass grave (a second move), then located, exhumed, and re-entombed by 1816 (moved for a third time), but into the royal chapel of "Saint Louis", later renamed by "Louis Philippe" as the, "Chapelle Royale de Dreux."
c.f. FAG memorial #84850529
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Formal title, 19th-century French: De très haut très puissant et très excellent prince Louis-Marie-Félicité de Bourbon, fils de LL. AA. SS. {Leurs Altesses Royales -ed.} Mgr le duc et Mme la duchesse de Penthièvre.
SOURCE (GOOGLE BOOKS & the Library of the University of California, Berkeley): "Mémoires de la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir", Tome IX, pages 359, 360, par la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, 1889, Librairie Petrot-Garnier, Place des Halles 12 et 14, Chartres.
Source [link]: https://books.google.com/books?id=K5k4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA359&
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In 1783, the "Duke of Penthièvre" [i.e. Louis Jean Marie, Duke of Penthièvre, de Bourbon] sold his domain of "Rambouillet", to "Louis XVI". On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, the Duke of Penthièvre transferred nine (9) caskets containing the remains of: his parents, Louis Alexandre (Count of Toulouse) & Marie Victoire (de Noailles); his wife, Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena; and six (6) of their seven (7) children ... from the small medieval village church (next to the castle in Rambouillet), to the chapel of the "Collégiale Saint-Étienne de Dreux".
Penthièvre [himself] died in March 1793, and his body was laid to rest in the crypt beside his parents. Just eight months later, on November 21 of that same year (in the midst of the French Revolution), a mob desecrated the crypt, and all ten (10) bodies were dumped into a mass grave: situated in "Chanoines Cemetery", of the "Collégiale Saint Étienne". In 1816, the daughter of the Duke of Penthièvre, the "Duchess of Orléans", had a new chapel built on the site of the mass grave (by then, parts of all ten bodies had been located in Chanoines cemetery, and their remains were exhumed for transfer to a final resting place for her family, in the "new" chapel). The Duchess buried the love of her life ("Rouzet") here, in 1820. After protracted post-Revolution legal battles, most of her inheritance was recovered. She died at her castle at Ivry-sur-Seine in 1821. Nine years later (in 1830), her son, "Louis Philippe d'Orléans" became, "King of the French." He made improvements to the chapel that his mother had built, and he renamed it.
Thus, the remains of "Louis Marie Félicité de Bourbon" were first laid to rest in 1754, then moved (here), in 1783. The remains were desecrated in 1793, hurriedly buried in a mass grave (a second move), then located, exhumed, and re-entombed by 1816 (moved for a third time), but into the royal chapel of "Saint Louis", later renamed by "Louis Philippe" as the, "Chapelle Royale de Dreux."
c.f. FAG memorial #84850529
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