Adélaïde of France

Marie Adélaïde de France (23 March 1732 – 27 February 1800) was a French princess, the sixth child and fourth daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska.

As a legitimate daughter of the King, Adélaïde was a fille de France. She was referred to as Madame Quatrième ("Madame the Fourth") until the death of her older sister Marie Louise in 1733, and then as Madame Troisième ("Madame the Third"); as Madame Adélaïde from 1737 to 1755; as Madame from 1755 to 1759; and then as Madame Adélaïde again from 1759 until her death. Adélaïde and her sister Sophie possessed the Duchy of Louvois from 1777 until 1792. The duchy had been created for them by their nephew Louis XVI, in their own right. During the reign of her nephew Adélaïde led the extreme conservative faction at court and was strongly anti Marie Antoinette, Adélaïde was reputedly the first person to call her 'the Austrian' During the French Revolution Adélaïde and her sister, Victoire fled France, settling in Rome. When the French Republic invaded the Italian Peninsula in 1796 the sisters moved to Naples. In 1799 France conquered Naples causing the Mesdames to go to Trieste where the sisters both died, in 1799 and 1800 respectively. She was the last of the children of Louis XV to die.