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Lamballe, Marie Therese Louise, Princesse de Lamballe

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Lamballe, Marie Therese Louise, Princesse de Lamballe (1749–1792)

Italian-born superintendent of the royal household of the French king Louis XVI. She was the devoted companion of his queen, Marie Antoinette. Along with her mistress, she was imprisoned and executed during the French Revolution.

Lamballe was born in Turin, the daughter of the Prince of Savoy-Carignano. In 1767 she married Stanislas, Prince of Lamballe, who died the next year. In 1792, after a brief imprisonment, she was taken to La Force prison and beheaded for refusing to take an oath against the monarchy. Her head was then impaled on a pike and placed in front of the queen's apartments.



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