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| title = [[List of Monegasque consorts|Hereditary Princess of Monaco]]
| name = Louise d'Aumont
| image = Princess Louise of Monaco, wife of Honoré IV of Monaco by an unknown artist.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1759|10|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hôtel d'Aumont]], [[Paris]], [[Kingdom of France|France]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1826|12|13|1759|10|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris, [[Bourbon Restoration in France|France]]
| place of burial = [[Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate|Saint Nicholas Cathedral]]
| full name = Louise Félicité Victoire d'Aumont
| house = [[House of Aumont|Aumont]]
| father = Louis Marie Guy [[House of Aumont|d'Aumont]]
| mother = Louise Jeanne de [[Durfort family|Durfort]]
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco|Honoré, Hereditary Prince of Monaco]]|15 July 1777|1798|end=div}}
* {{marriage|René François Tirnand-d'Arcis|6 February 1801|1803|end=div}}
}}
| issue = {{Plainlist|
* [[Honoré V, Prince of Monaco]]
* [[Florestan I, Prince of Monaco]]
* Amélie Céleste Erodore d'Aumont
* Jeanne Marie Pétronille d'Aumont<ref>[http://users.skynet.be/am035431/pages/1%20Les%20Premiers%20Seigneurs%20d%27Aumont/aumont.html les premiers seigneurs d'Aumont]</ref>
}}
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'''Louise d'Aumont''', ''duchesse d'Aumont, duchesse Mazarin et de La Meilleraye'', (Louise Félicité Victoire; 22 October 1759, in [[Paris]] – 13 December 1826, in Paris) was a [[Dukes in France|French Duchess]] and a [[List of Monégasque consorts|Princess of Monaco]] by marriage to [[Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco]].
==Life==
[[File:Royal Monogram of Princess Louise d'Aumont of Monaco.svg|thumb|150px|left|Royal Monogram of Princess Louise d'Aumont of Monaco]]
She was the only child and daughter of [[House of Aumont|Louis Marie Guy d'Aumont, Duke of Aumont]] (1732–1799), and Louise Jeanne de [[Durfort family|Durfort]], ''duchesse Mazarin et de La Meilleraye'' ([[Paris]], 1 September 1735 - [[Paris]], 17 March 1781).  Louise d'Aumont was a direct descendant of [[Hortense Mancini]], the mistress of King [[Charles II of England]], who was one of the two heirs of her uncle, King [[Louis XIV]]'s chief minister [[Cardinal Mazarin]]. Also she was a descendant of [[Michel Le Tellier]].
She married [[Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco|Honoré, Hereditary Prince of Monaco]], on 15 July 1777 in [[Paris]].  The couple had two children, [[Honoré V, Prince of Monaco|Prince Honoré V]] and [[Florestan I, Prince of Monaco|Prince Florestan I]].  The marriage was arranged in order to give Monaco access to her great fortune.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>  However, her family's assets were tied up in lawsuits, and Louise went into debt in Monaco because of her gambling  and expensive wardrobe.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>  The marriage between Louise and Honoré was unhappy, and they soon separated.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>
In March 1793, Monaco was annexed to Revolutionary France, and the members of the former ruling dynasty became French citizens.  In parallel, her brother-in-law, [[Prince Joseph of Monaco]] spend most of his time abroad to negotiate foreign loans, making  him and his family suspect  of being contra-revolutionary traitors.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>  Joseph's wife [[Marie Thérèse de Choiseul]] was arrested in the absence of her spouse, as was his father, his brother and his sister-in-law, Louise.  Louise and her children where rescued from prison by her family doctor, Desormeaux, who forged a release order from prison and hid them until the fall of [[Maximilien Robespierre]].<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>
On 28 March 1794, Louise gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Amélie Céleste Erodore d'Aumont (died 1820). The father of the child is believed to have been [[Antoine de Montazet]], archbishop of [[Lyon]].<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>  The marriage of Honoré IV and Louise ended in divorce in 1798, giving Louise sole access of her fortune.  Louise married secondly René François Tirand des Arcis on 6 February 1801, and divorced him in 1803.
Louise removed her eldest son from her will because he had an illegitimate child, and willed her entire fortune to her younger son, Florestan.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>
Through their descent from Louise and her mother, the princely family of Monaco now lays claim to the wealth and estates bequeathed by Cardinal Mazarin, including the [[Counts and dukes of Rethel|Duchy of Rethel]], and the [[Château-Porcien|Principality of Château-Porcien]].
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Louise d'Aumont Mazarin'''
|2= 2. Louis Marie d'Aumont, Duke of Aumont
|3= 3. Louise Jeanne de Durfort, Duchess Mazarin and of [[La Meilleraye]]
|4= 4. Louis Marie Victor Augustin d'Aumont, Duke of Aumont
|5= 5. Victoire Félicité de Durfort
|6= 6. Emmanuel Felicité de Durfort, Duke of Duras
|7= 7. Charlotte Antoinette de La Porte Mazarin
|8= 8. Louis Marie d'Aumont, Duke of Aumont
|9= 9. Catherine de Guiscard
|10= 10. Jean Baptiste de Durfort, Duke of Duras
|11= 11. Marie Angèlique Victoire de Bournonville
|12= 12. Jean Baptiste de Durfort, Duke of Duras (= 10)
|13= 13. Marie Angèlique Victoire de Bournonville (= 11)
|14= 14. Guy Jules Paul de La Porte Mazarin, Duke Mazarin and of La Meilleraye
|15= 15. Louise Françoise de Rohan
|16= 16. Louis d'Aumont, Duke of Aumont
|17= 17. Olympe de Brouilly, Marquise of Piennes
|18= 18. Louis de Guiscard, Count of La Bourlie, Marquis of Guiscard-Magny
|19= 19. Angelique de Langlée, Dame of Espichelière
|20= 20. [[Jacques Henri de Durfort de Duras|Jacques Henri de Durfort]], Duke of Duras
|21= 21. Marguerite Félice de Lévis
|22= 22. Alexandre Albert François Barthélemy de Bournonville, Duke and Prince of Bournonville
|23= 23. Marie Charlotte Victoire d'Albert de Luynes
|24= 24. Jacques Henri de Durfort, Duke of Duras (= 20)
|25= 25. Marguerite Félice de Lévis (= 21)
|26= 26. Alexandre Albert François Barthélemy de Bournonville, Duke and Prince of Bournonville (= 22)
|27= 27. Marie Charlotte Victoire d'Albert de Luynes (= 23)
|28= 28. Paul Jules de La Porte Mazarin, Duke Mazarin and of La Meilleraye
|29= 29. Felice Armande Charlotte de Durfort
|30= 30. [[Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan]]
|31= 31. [[Anne Geneviève de Lévis]]
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==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061209090438/http://www3.monaco.mc/monaco/info/history4.html Monaco: 1662 to 1815] retrieved 8 February 2007
* [http://worldroots.com/cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I21402@ World Roots] retrieved 8 February 2007
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