What is Louise Henriette de Bourbon?
{{Infobox royalty |name =Louise Henriette de Bourbon |title =Duchess of Orléans |image =Nattier - The Spring (La Source) traditionally identified as Louise Henriette de Bourbon - MET.jpg |caption =Louise Henriette in 1743 by [[Jean-Marc Nattier]] |full name =Louise Henriette de Bourbon |spouse =[[Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans|Louis Philippe d'Orléans]] |issue =[[Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans|Philippe, Duke of Orléans]]<br/>[[Bathilde d'Orléans|Bathilde, Duchess of Bourbon]] |royal house=[[House of Bourbon]] |father =[[Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti|Louis Armand de Bourbon]] |mother =[[Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon]] |birth_date ={{Birth date|1726|6|20|df=y}} |birth_place =[[Paris]], [[France]] |death_date ={{Death date and age|1759|2|9|1726|6|20|df=y}} |death_place =[[Palais-Royal]], Paris, France |burial_place =[[Val-de-Grâce]], Paris |signature =Louise Henriette de Bourbon signature 1749.jpg |}} '''Louise Henriette de Bourbon''' (20 June 1726 – 9 February 1759) was Duchess of Orléans and the mother of [[Philippe Égalité]]. By birth and marriage she held the prestigious rank of a [[Princess of the blood]]. ==Background== Louise Henriette was born in Paris the only daughter of [[Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti|Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti]] and [[Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon]]. In her youth she was known at court as ''Mademoiselle de Conti'' and had been bought up in a convent. ==Marriage== One of Louise Henriette's cousins, [[Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon]], grandson of [[Louis XIV]], had proposed marriage to her, but her mother's choice fell upon the Duke of Chartres. As a result on 17 December 1743, aged of seventeen, Louise Henriette married her second cousin [[Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans|Louis Philippe d'Orléans]] at [[Versailles]]. The Duke of Chartres' father, [[Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans]], known as the ''Pious'', accepted her as she had had a religious upbringing however after a passionate beginning, Louise Henriette'