A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Margaret Louisa of Lorraine

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MARGARET LOUISA OF LORRAINE,

Daughter of Henry, Duke of Guise, married in 1605, at the instance of Henry the Fourth, who was in love with her, and wished to fix her at court, Francis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. They however left the court immediately on marrying. The prince died in 1617, and Louisa devoted herself to the belles-lettres. She was one of Cardinal Richelieu's enemies, and he banished her to Eu, where she died in 1631. She was suspected of having married the Marshal of Bassompierre for her second husband. She wrote the amours of Henry the Fourth, under the of title "Les Amours du Gr. Alexandre."