Louise of France

Louise of France
Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais, ca. 1763
Born(1737-07-15)15 July 1737
Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
Died23 December 1787(1787-12-23) (aged 50)
Convent of Saint-Denis, France
HouseBourbon
FatherLouis XV
MotherMaria Leszczyńska
ReligionCatholicism
SignatureLouise of France's signature

Coat of arms of a Princess of France

Thérèse of Saint Augustine

Princess Louise of France in her religious habit, ca. 18th-century
BornLouise-Marie
15 July 1737
Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France
HometownVersailles
ResidencePalace of Versailles, Convent of Saint Denis
Died23 December 1787
Convent of Saint Denis
Resting placeBasilica 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.

  1. ^ 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.