On 23 July 1728, she married
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, at
Sarry in France. Louis Henri was a French
prince of the Blood Royal and head of the
House of Condé, a branch of the
House of Bourbon. Maternally, he was a grandson of
Louis XIV through his mother, one of the king's
legitimated daughters. By the time of his second marriage to Caroline, Louis Henri had lost the sight of one eye and the attractive slenderness his height bestowed upon him in youth. After marriage she was known at the French court as
Madame la Duchesse. The previous Princess of Condé had been
Marie Anne de Bourbon, who had died eight years before the marriage between Caroline and Louis Henri. Caroline was alleged to have been pretty and to have been included on a list of possible wives for
Louis XV, but had been removed on account of her bad temper. When her husband was banished to his estates in 1725,
Madame la Duchesse was obliged to withdraw with him to the
Château de Chantilly until
Monsieur le Duc was pardoned and the couple were allowed to resume attendance at the
royal court again in 1730, where they lived quietly at the
Hôtel de Condé. The couple had one child eight years into their marriage:
Louis Joseph de Bourbon. Her husband died at the Château de Chantilly on 27 January 1740, in the same year the future
Marquis de Sade was born at the
Hôtel de Condé; his mother was Caroline's lady in waiting. Caroline died in Paris one year later, in June 1741, and was buried at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris. ==Legacy==