Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe

French princess (1749-1792)

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Lived 1749–1792, aged 43France

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1749–1792
Aged 43

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Updated 2026-08-18

She was Marie Antoinette's closest confidante at Versailles — an Italian princess who married into the richest family in France and died in the September Massacres, her death one of the Revolution's most notorious killings.

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Born in 1749 to the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy, she married at seventeen into staggering wealth: Louis Alexandre de Bourbon-Penthièvre, heir to the greatest fortune in France. The marriage lasted a year. Widowed, she went to the French royal court and became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette, a bond that would seal her fate. When the Revolution turned its fury on the monarchy's inner circle, loyalty became liability. She was killed on 3 September 1792 in the September Massacres, six days before her forty-third birthday.

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