Together they moved from town to town, fleeing the advance of the French troops.Then in 1799, after eight years of wanderings. "Madame Sophie never married, but became a member of the collective group of unmarried princesses known as In 1761, when her sister Victoire visited the waters in Lorraine for medical purposes for the first time in the company of Adelaide, Sophie and her sister Louise visited Paris for the first time.The life of the sisters in the last years of the reign of the father was described as follows: "Louis XV. When the latter left the Court to become a Carmelite, “she shed many a silent tear on her abandonment,” Madame Campan informs us.Yet she found solace in what was left to her: good food, By the time of the Revolution, the only surviving children of Louis XV were Mesdames Adélaïde and Victoire. So Louis XV’s Prime Minister, Cardinal de Fleury, chose to send Madame Victoire, then only five, and her younger sisters to the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. Every evening, at six, Mesdames interrupted my reading to them to accompany the princes to Louis XV. Louis had no children; he died aged 10 in 1795. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag AB. Victoire died in Trieste of breast cancer. Maybe indeed Madame Henriette would have prevented the emergence, much to the discredit of the monarchy, of that new favorite.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoire_de_France_(1733-1799) While their education had been neglected in the convent, they reportedly compensated for this and studied extensively after their return to court, encouraged by their brother, with whom they immediately formed a close attachment: "When Mesdames, still very young, returned to Court, they enjoyed the friendship of Monseigneur the Dauphin, and profited by his advice. Louise-Marie of France (15 July 1737 – 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.She entered the Carmelite convent (now the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis) at Saint-Denis in 1770 under the name of Thérèse of Saint Augustine, and served as prioress in 1773-1779 and 1785-1787.She was declared venerable in 1873. When one existed (this was the case for Louis XIV of France and Louis XVI of France but not for Louis XV, who was the sole surviving sibling), the first of the filles de France was given the title of "Madame Royale." Her birth at the Madame Sophie and her sister Louise were allowed to return to the court of Versailles in 1750, two years after Victoire. This latter lady was deformed and very short; the poor Princess used to run with all her might to join the daily meeting, but, having a number of rooms to cross, she frequently in spite of her haste, had only just time to embrace her father before he set out for the chase. Together they left France for Italy in 1791, a few months before the disastrous and failed flight of the rest of the royal family to Varennes. His uncle, the future Philip was the first Bourbon king of Spain, the country's present ruling house. As the legitimate daughter of the king, she was a fille de France. ]—and was marked by a kind of etiquette. In a moment the whole palace, generally so still, was in motion; the King kissed each Princess on the forehead, and the visit was so short that the reading which it interrupted was frequently resumed at the end of a quarter of an hour; Mesdames returned to their apartments, and untied the strings of their petticoats and trains; they resumed their tapestry, and I my book."

The appellation of "Mesdames" remained in history because of particular genealogical, political, and strategic circumstances that caused many of the … Adélaïde survived only eight months.by historical novelist Catherine Delors, author of For the King From April 1774, Madame Sophie and her sisters attended to their father Louis XV on his deathbed until his death from smallpox on 10 May. It was an ancient and prestigious institution, the “Queen of the Abbeys,” founded by the Plantagenêts in the heart of the Loire Valley, before they became Kings of England.

A particular group. Sophie is less well known than many of her sisters. No salutary foresight have protected these princesses from the fateful impressions that the least informed mother knows how to keep away from her children.” One can wonder whether the nuns, though of course honored by the confidence placed in them by Louis XV and Cardinal de Fleury, were very happy to have four little princesses thus unexpectedly foisted upon them.Victoire was only five when she was sent to Fontevraud, and she did not return to Versailles until 1748, ten years later. Madame Louise occupied the farthest room. The apartments of Mesdames were of very large dimensions. saw very little of his family.

Mesdames put on an enormous hoop, which set out a petticoat ornamented with gold or embroidery; they fastened a long train round their waists, and concealed the undress of the rest of their clothing by a long cloak of black taffety which enveloped them up to the chin. He came every morning by a private staircase into the apartment of Madame Adelaide. Madame Campan alludes here to the influence of Madame du Barry, the last of Louis XV’s mistresses, in the waning years of his reign. Marie Adélaïde de France, (23 March 1732 in Versailles – 27 February 1800 in Trieste), was a French princess, the sixth child and the fourth daughter of King Louis XV of France and his consort, Marie Leszczyńska. From then on they were inseparable.