Victoire de France & Marie Adélaïde de France

[An Ard Ri]

Victoire de France & Marie Adélaïde de France

Both were daughters of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska,the 2 royal sisters fled France in 1791 and thus survived the revolution unlike many of their family members.

Princess Victoire of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Princess Marie Adélaïde of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[An Ard Ri]

Princess Victoire of France was born on the 11th of May,1733

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Princess Victoire was only five years old when she was sent to the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud.
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[An Ard Ri]

Madame Adélaïde de France

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Marie Adelaide de France loved literature.
In her library she had 5000 titles.
Marie Adelaide de France is the French princess who first referred to Marie Antoinette of Austria as "The Austrian Woman".
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[CyrilVladisla]

Princess Victoire de France never married.
Did her father have any possible suitors considered for her?

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[An Ard Ri]

Madame Marie Adélaïde of France and 2 her sisters,Victoire de France and Sophie de France never married and were all deeply religious Princesses.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Princess Adelaide de France did not approve of her father's mistress.

 

[An Ard Ri]

Princess Adelaide de France did not approve of her father's mistress.

Both sisters's were very conservative Roman Catholic's.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

The Chambers of Princess Victoire and Princess Adelaide
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/disc...apartments#madame-victoires-first-antechamber

 

[An Ard Ri]

The Chambers of Princess Victoire and Princess Adelaide
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/disc...apartments#madame-victoires-first-antechamber

Both of the king'[s aunts were at Versailles on the 6th of October 1789 when the Women's Match arrived and were forced to leave with the Royal Family back to Paris.
In 1791 they both fled France for Rome where Pope Pius VI has them lodged at the Palazzo Farnese .

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Madame Adelaide or Madame Victoire of France's Roll top desk

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/289497082315468487/

 

[An Ard Ri]

A look at Louis XV's daughters' Apartments at Versailles
Louis XV's daughters' Apartments

 

[Blog Real]

Madame Victoire of France.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Madame_Victoire_of_France.jpg

Madame Adélaïde by Heinsius, 1786.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Heinsius_-_Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde_of_France.jpg