Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (13 September 1676 – 23 December 1744) was a petite-fille de France and duchess of Lorraine and Bar by her marriage to Duke Leopold.

[3] Élisabeth's mother initially wanted her to marry King William III of England but him being a Protestant prevented the marriage.

The marriage was seen as a brilliant match by the House of Lorraine, but some[clarification needed] regarded it as unworthy of a petite-fille de France.

Because of these conflicts, some ladies of the royal family[clarification needed] used the death of a small son of the duke of Maine to attend the wedding in mourning clothes.

[citation needed] In June 1701, her father died after having a heated argument with Louis XIV at Versailles[5] about the duke of Chartres.

[citation needed] As a result, Élisabeth Charlotte was only able to see her mother if she went to Versailles; they maintained a correspondence, which was destroyed in a 1719 fire at the Château de Lunéville.

In 1718, when she briefly visited the French court, her niece, Marie Louise, Dowager Duchess of Berry gave a lavish reception in her honour at Luxembourg Palace.

[citation needed] Upon leaving France, her husband was accorded the style of Royal Highness, usually reserved for members of foreign dynasties headed by a king.

[citation needed] Her husband died in 1729, leaving his wife regent of Lorraine for their son, Francis Stephen who had been raised in Vienna.

On 7 January 1744 her youngest son, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, who died in childbirth on 16 December 1744.

[citation needed] In 1696, Charles Perrault dedicated his Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye, (known in English as Mother Goose Tales) to her.

In 1730, she offered to the church of Mattaincourt a gilded wooden shrine for the relics of Pierre Fourier, a former parish priest who had been beatified on 29 January 1730.