Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia, III. principe di Carignano

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Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan

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Victor Amadeus of Savoy, Prince of Carignan, born in Turin on February 29, 1690, died in Turin on April 4, 1741, was Prince of Carignan from 1709 to 1741. He was the son of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of Carignan and his wife, the beauty Maria Angela Caterina d'Este.

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Born in Turin, he was the third child of four and the eldest son.

Made a Knight of the Annunciation in 1696, he married, at Moncalieri on November 7, 1714, Marie Anne Victoire France of Savoy (1690 - 1766), legitimised daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, King of Sardinia and of Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Countess of Verrue. Their children were :

   * Joseph Victor Amédée (1716 - 1716)

   * Anne Thérèse of Savoy (1717 - 1745), married in 1741 to Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715 - 1787)

   * Louis-Victor of Savoy (1721 - 1778), Prince of Carignan

   * Victor Amédée (1722, died young)

   * a daughter, born in 1729

His father-in-law showed affection for him but ended up depriving him, in 1717, of his 400,000 livres of annual income because of excessive spending. It was then that he ran away to France, at the end of 1718, in order to take possession of his inheritance.

Since he had lost the Château de Condé to Jean-François Leriget de La Faye when it was confiscated from his family by Louis XIV) on March 6, 1719, he established himself in the hôtel de Soissons, which he transformed, with his wife who had followed him there, into a "sumptuous gaming house" which for a time sheltered the economist John Law. He died, ruined, and his hôtel was razed to construct in its place a grain-trading hall, now the site of the Bourse de commerce de Paris.

He had a passion for the Paris Opéra, and was named intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs by Louis XV, he brought about the disgrace of the tax farmer Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière after he caught him in the company of his mistress, the actress Marie Antier.

Source

   * translation of the French Wikipedia article.

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