Born at the Parisian
Hôtel de Soissons, she was a member of a
cadet branch of the
House of Savoy. Her father was the
Prince di Carignano. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of the
then king Victor Amadeus of Sicily. Her mother was
Maria Vittoria Francesca, legittimata di Savoia, Marchesa di Susa, a
legitimised daughter of Victor Amadeus II and his
maîtresse-en-titre,
Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes. She grew up in Paris, their parents fleeing the court of Savoy due to embarrassingly large debts. Their parents arrived in Paris during the
regency of Philippe d'Orléans (1715–1723), regent of the Kingdom for the infant
Louis XV. Her husband to be was
Charles de Rohan, the widower of
Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, a granddaughter of
Marie Mancini. As head of the
cadet branch of the
House of Rohan, Charles bore the titles
Prince de Soubise and
Duke of Rohan-Rohan. He became a
Marshal of France in 1758, and served as a minister to Louis XV and
Louis XVI. Orphaned at the age of 9, he was a notorious libertine. The couple married in the original (
vieux) donjon of the
château de Rohan in the town of
Saverne on 6 November 1741. Presiding over the ceremony was the bridegroom's brother,
Armand de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg. Anne Thérèse had a step-daughter,
Charlotte de Rohan, future wife of
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé and grandmother of
Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, an
émigré whose seizure and execution by personal order of
Napoleon would shock Europe in 1804. Anne Thérèse died in childbirth at the
Hôtel de Soubise. In December 1745, her widowed husband married again; this time to
Landgravine Anna Viktoria of Hesse-Rotenburg. ==Issue==