Anne Julie de Melun

Born in 1698, she was baptised with the names Anne Julie Adélaïde and was known as Anne Julie. Born to Louis de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy and his wife Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, princesse de Lillebonne she was the second of two children. Her brother Louis de Melun disappeared in 1724, two months after her death.

She was the Lady of Boubers in her own right.[1] The peerage was confiscated in 1789.[1]

At the age of roughly fifteen, she married Jules, Prince of Soubise. The couple were wed in Paris on 16 September 1714. Her husband was a member of the Princely House of Rohan and with the marriage, Anne Julie took on the style of Her Highness. Her husbands parents were Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan and Anne Geneviève de Lévis.

She and her husband were second cousins. Anne Julie was an under governess to the children of France working with Madame de Ventadour, her husband's maternal grandmother.

The couple had five children in all. She and her husband died in Paris of smallpox. Her eldest son Charles succeeded as Prince of Soubise. Her brother's disappearance, led to the Principality of Epinoy (previously enjoyed by Anne Julie's father) was given to her son, Charles.[2]

• Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (16 July 1715–4 July 1787) married Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1722–1739) and had issue; married again to Princess Anna Teresa of Savoy (1717–1745) and had issue; married Anne Victoire de Hesse-Rotenburg (1728–1792) no issue;
• François Armand Auguste de Rohan, cardinal de Soubise, Prince of Tournon (1 December 1717–28 Juin 1758)
• Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan (7 January 1720–4 March 1803) married Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, no issue;
• François Auguste de Rohan, Count of Tournon (16 September 1721–6 August 1736) never married;
• René de Rohan, Abbot of Luxeuil (26 July 1723–7 February 1743) never married.