the two Guise women. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685, she created a house for "New Converts" in her duchy of Alençon and actively converted the local Huguenots. In 1694, she gave the Luxembourg Palace to Louis XIV. She died in 1696 at the Palace of Versailles and was buried in the Great Carmel of Paris, among the nuns. The fortune that she had accumulated was willed to her older and only surviving sibling, Marguerite Louise, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Ancestors References External links Funeral Oration of Élisabeth 1646 births 1696 deaths 17th-century French people 17th-century French women Nobility from Paris Dukes of Angoulême Dukes of Alençon House of Bourbon-Montpensier Abbesses of Remiremont Alencon, Duchess of, Elisabeth Marguerite Princesses of France (Bourbon) French music House of Guise House of Orléans Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques Duchesses of Guise Duchesses of Joyeuse Princesses of Joinville