A Rebel Heiress in the French Royal Family

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Anne Marie's father was the brother of the King of France. Her mother was one of the country's richest women. And though in her youth Anne Marie had dreamed she would marry her cousin, King Louis XIV, in the end she would lead a life far more interesting—becoming a symbolic leader during a political civil war, and embarking on an attempt for a doomed love match marriage that would, in the end, cost her more than her heart.

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0:29.4	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.
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0:39.7	On the morning of March 27th, 1652, the French city of Orléans found itself in the middle of a stand down.
0:53.4	On one side of its gates were the city's authorities,
0:56.5	a stressed out group of municipal officials
0:59.5	who feared the ramifications of opening the door for the person outside. the Anne Marie Louise de'O'Ré-Léin, Duchess of Montpécier, daughter of France, a niece of the king himself.
1:18.2	Two days earlier, Anne Marie had departed Luxembourg Palace with a small escort.
1:24.1	She donned a gray habit covered in gold
1:26.8	and she rode toward the city whose name she bore.
1:30.5	People cheered in the streets as she rode by and her father had waved goodbye from his palace window watching his daughter head for or Leon in his stead.
1:40.0	But upon arrival at the city, Anne-Marie faced a problem, a gate that was closed.
1:48.6	Tensions were fraught in 1652, France due to the escalation of something known as the Frond of the Princes, a civil war which
1:58.2	saw the Princes of the Blood fighting against the authority of the king.
2:03.0	Anne Marie was at Orléant, not on behalf of her uncle the king,
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