Marie Sophie de Courcillon (6 August 1713 – 4 April 1756) was a French salonnière, Duchess of Rohan-Rohan and Princess of Soubise by marriage. She was the granddaughter of Philippe de Courcillon, better known as the marquis de Dangeau. She was praised for being a cultured woman for the age and held a fashionable salon at the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris. She was painted by Nattier.
Marie Sophie was the only child of Philippe Egon de Courcillon (1684–1709) styled as the marquis de Courcillon and his wife Françoise de Pompadour, Duchess of La Valette. Her paternal grandfather was Philippe de Courcillon, the famous marquis de Dangeau and memoir writer of the court of Louis XIV.
Mademoiselle de Courcillon was married twice. Firstly to Charles François d'Albert d'Ailly, son of Louis Auguste d'Albert de Luynes and Marie Anne Romaine de Beaumanoir. The couple married on 17 January 1729. She was thus known as the Duchess of Pecquigny.
The couple had a daughter who died young and little information exists.[2] Soon after, Louis Auguste himself died and Marie Sophie was a widow at the age of 17.
The duke of Rohan-Rohan was a member of the House of Rohan and had the prestigious rank of Foreign Princes at Versailles. This entitled Marie Sophie, styled as the "Princess of Rohan" (Madame la princesse de Rohan) the style of Highness.
The bride was 44 years younger than the groom; Marie Sophie was closer to her daughter-in-law the Princess of Guéméné (1704–1780).
To celebrate the union, her husband commissioned Germain Boffrand to redecorate the interior of the Hôtel de Soubise, the Parisian townhouse of the Rohan's. She kept a fashionable salon at the hôtel.
Her husband died in 1749 in Paris. She was the mistress of Duke de Richelieu, who lost his last wife, born Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine in 1740. She died in Paris at the age of 42.
With her, the Courcillon family died out. She was buried on 7 April 1756 at the Église de La Merci in Paris,[4] the traditional burial place of the Soubise line of the House of Rohan in the presence of her late husband's grandchildren[4] and the Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Cardinal de Rohan.[4]
^Dictionnaire de la noblesse. 1770. Retrieved 2010-04-21 – via Googlebooks.org.
^ abd'Albert Luynes, Charles Philippe (1860). Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735-1758) By Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes. Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie. p. 495. Retrieved 2010-04-21 – via Googlebooks.org. Marie Charlotte Sobieska.
^ abcCocula, Anne-Marie; Pontet, Josette (2005). Itinéraires spirituels, enjeux matériels en Europe. Presses Univ de Bordeaux. ISBN9782867813696. Retrieved 2010-04-21 – via Googlebooks.org.
December 18, 2023
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