| Louise of France | |
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_by_Fran%C3%A7ois-Hubert_Drouais.jpg) Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais, ca. 1763 | |
| Born | 15 July 1737 Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France |
| Died | 23 December 1787 (aged 50) Convent of Saint-Denis, France |
| House | Bourbon |
| Father | Louis XV |
| Mother | Maria Leszczyńska |
| Religion | Catholicism |
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.svg) Coat of arms of a Princess of France | |
Thérèse of Saint Augustine | |
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 Princess Louise of France in her religious habit, ca. 18th-century | |
| Born | Louise-Marie 15 July 1737 Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France |
| Hometown | Versailles |
| Residence | Palace of Versailles, Convent of Saint Denis |
| Died | 23 December 1787 Convent of Saint Denis |
| Resting place | Basilica of Saint Denis (until 1792) |
Louise-Marie of France, OCD (15 July 1737 – 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Discalced Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of King Louis XV and Queen Maria Leszczyńska.[1] She entered the Carmelite convent at Saint-Denis in 1770 and took the religious name Thérèse of Saint Augustine. She served as prioress in 1773-1779 and 1785–1787.
Her cause for canonization was opened in 1902 and she was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1997.
- ^ Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon, Vol. 2, (Publisher Mansut Fils, 4 Rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris, 1825), 154.