MONTPENSIER, ANNE )1 MOO.
Lot usr IftLf:ANS. of (1627-93). The daughter of Easton d'Orli;ans. brother of Louis N111. of known as La Grande Mademoi selle. She grew up beautiful, eccentric, and am bitious. Mine still a child there was idle talk of a marriage with Louis XIV. of and subsequently her mat rimonial aspirations centred about the persons of the future Philip IV. of Spain. the Emperor Ferdinand III.. and his brother. the 1rehdlike Leopold. All these plans miscarried. probably through the sp end hostility of Cardinal Mazarin. rpon the outbreak of the troubles of the Fronde. Mmdemoi seIle. with her worthless father, whom she rip pears to have loved, remained faithful to the Court. hut in 1651 she embraced the cause of the great Conde". whom she originally hated most bitterly. but later seemingly sought in marriage. Iler vanity and courage found delight in the rile of party leader, which she now was enabled to play. ln March, 1652. she held the city of OrMans against the !loyal army and then went to Paris, where her masculine decision made her for a time the leader practieally of the resistance to the King. Dn July 2. 1652. when Condi., after stubborn fighting in the Saint Antoine. bad been decisively beaten by Turenne. Mademoiselle saved the Prince's army from an nihilation by training the guns of the Bastille on the Royal forces and opening the gates of the city to receive the defeated troops. In Detober
she was banisInd from the Court and lived for some time in retirement. She was recalled to Court in 1657, and after scone years fell violently in love with the Duke of Lanzun (q.v.), a hand some and accomplished (taseon cavalier, and a favorite of Louis XIV. In December. 1670. the King consented to the marriage. but within three days withdrew his sanction. owing probably to the enmity of :Madame de Montespan for Mademoiselle. In the following year Lanzun was thrown into the Bastille, where he remained for ten years in spite of the exertions of _Mademoi selle. who finally obtained his freedom by ceding the County of En and the Principality of Donates to the Duke of Maine, son of Madame de Montespan. There is some reason to believe that a secret marriage took place between 1:1117.1111 and It is certain that Lauzun re paid her devotion by brutal neglect and that they became totally estranged. She died in Paris. April 5. 1693. leaving behind her .116noires, first published at Amsterdam in 1729, and subsequently edited by Chiquel (Paris, I5581. Consult Margerie. Lo Grande Mademoi selle (Nancy. 1869).