As her mother was regent of Auguste's native Baden-Baden, it was her mother who tried to find a suitable candidate for her only daughter. Her mother proposed two candidates; Auguste, however gave into her mother and agreed to the match with Louis d'Orléans and there was a proxy ceremony held at the
Schloss Rastatt before she was married on 13 July 1724, at the age of 19. Louis d'Orléans was the great-grandson of King
Louis XIII through his second son,
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and the grandson of Philippe's older brother,
Louis XIV, through his legitimized daughter
Françoise Marie de Bourbon. Chosen for, among other reasons, her family's Catholicism, she brought a comparatively small dowry of 80,000
livres to the Orléans. At the court of
Versailles, she was known alternatively as
Jeanne or
Auguste de Bade, it was as the latter which she signed. Her marriage to the
First Prince of the Blood allowed her to use the style of
Madame la Princesse, and made her one of the most important ladies at the court of the young
Louis XV. At the time of her marriage, the young king Louis was "engaged" to his first cousin the
Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain. The couple were never actually married and in 1725 she was sent back to Spain then making Auguste and her mother in law the
Dowager Duchess of Orléans the most senior women at court. She was popular with the court and noted as being very charming. In 1725, Louis XV married
Marie Leszczyńska, making Auguste one step behind the new queen in terms of rank and etiquette. She and her husband lived in the
Château de Saint-Cloud, one of the Orléans' residences, and had also an apartment at the château of Versailles where her son Louis Philippe was born in 1725. Expecting to give birth to her second child at Versailles in early August 1726, her mother-in-law
Dowager Duchess of Orléans forced her heavily pregnant daughter in law to return to Paris Auguste died on 8 August 1726, at the age of twenty-one, three days after giving birth to the couple's second child at the
Palais-Royal, the Paris residence of the
House of Orléans. Despite the shortness of the relationship, many contemporaries said that the couple was well matched and that they had fallen in love at first sight. After her death, her husband went into a long period of mourning. It was said of Auguste that "she had all the great qualities of the heart, that she died with the universal regret of France". She was buried at the
Val-de-Grâce Convent in Paris. After her death, her aunt-in-law
Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans suggested that Louis marry one of her daughters, namely
Élisabeth Thérèse and
Anne Charlotte. Louis refused outright, much to the annoyance of his aunt. ==Issue==