A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Conti, Princess de
CONTI, PRINCESS DE,
Whose maiden name was Mademoiselle de Blois, was the daughter of Louis the Fourteenth, and Louise de la Valliére. She married Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, brother of the prince who was chosen King of Poland. Louis Armand died of small pox. The princess was equally celebrated for her wit and wonderful beauty. Muley Ismael, King of Morocco, happening to see her portrait, fell in love with her, and sent an ambassador to demand her hand. Another likeness of this princess inspired the son of the Viceroy of Lima with a violent passion; and one of these pictures having been lost in India, was found by the natives, who worshipped it as the image of the goddess Monas. The princess was a protectress of literary men. She died at the commencement of the eighteenth century.