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Louis XVII (born Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy; 27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795) was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month before the start of the French Revolution. At his brother's death he became the new Dauphin ...
Feb 1, 2023 · Louis XVII of France was the regnal name of Louis-Charles de France (l. 1785-1795), the younger son of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) and Queen Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793). Although Louis-Charles...
- Louis-Charles, dauphin of France, recognized by royalists as King Louis XVII, was imprisoned by revolutionaries during the French Revolution. While...
- A mystery has persisted surrounding Louis XVII's alleged survival; after the French Revolution, no fewer than 40 people came forward claiming to be...
- Louis XVII of France was never coronated and never actually reigned as king; the years of his "reign" were 1793-95, when France was a republic. He...
- Louis XVII of France died after nearly three years of imprisonment of scrofula, a form of tuberculosis; he was only 10 years old.
Louis-Charles de France, ‘Louis XVII’, was born at Versailles in 1785, just a few short years before the outbreak of the French Revolution. He was locked up along with his family in the Temple prison in 1792, and would never be freed. Louis XVII never ruled; he died in his prison cell at the age of ten, far from the sumptuous luxury of his early years.
Apr 22, 2022 · Louis Charles was separated and imprisoned in a tiny windowless room, all alone. What Happened In the Temple? The mystery of the “Lost Dauphin” actually began when Louis XVII was first incarcerated in the Temple prison in Paris.
- Bipin Dimri
father Louis XVI. mother Marie-Antoinette. Louis (XVII) (born March 27, 1785, Versailles, France—died June 8, 1795, Paris) was the titular king of France from 1793. He was the second son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, and he was the royalists’ first recognized claimant to the monarchy after his father was executed during the ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Synopsis. Louis XVII was born at the Palace of Versailles in France on March 27, 1785. His family fled Versailles during the French Revolution. After the execution of the dauphin's father, King ...
Portrait of the Dauphin, then Louis XVII in 1793. It was in the Temple fortress on June 8, 1795, when Louis-Charles of France, the youngest son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, died of an illness. He was ten years old. He would have reigned under the name Louis XVII, but the Revolution decided otherwise. Taken to the Temple fortress with his ...
