Louise-Élisabeth de France, the favorite daughter Louise-Elisabeth of France (1727-1759), daughter of France, then Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, is the eldest of the ten children of King Louis XV of France and Marie Leszczyńska. Born on August 14, 1727 in Versailles, she was the twin sister of Madame Henriette Madame Elisabeth with her twin sister Madame Henriette, by Pierre Gobert, Commissioned by Louis XV in 1732, 1737 As soon as she was born, she received the name "Madame Première". It was not until her baptism at Versailles on April 27, 1737 that she became Louise-Élisabeth, known as Madame Élisabeth, called "Madame" (after the king's eldest daughter). Her father more affectionately nicknamed her "Babette." She receives as godfather and godmother the cousins of the royal family, princes of blood: Louis-Philippe, Duke of Chartres, son of the Duke of Orleans, and Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon-Condé, widowed princess of Conti. W...
