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Louis Joseph Xavier François (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789) was Dauphin of France as the second child and first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. As son of a king of France, he was a fils de France ("Child of France"). Louis Joseph died aged seven from tuberculosis and was succeeded as Dauphin (and thus heir-apparent) by his four ...
In 1793, following a show trial, Louis XVI is executed. In October of the same year Marie Antoinette is brought before the court. After a 15-hour marathon trial, she is unanimously declared guilty on all counts. The sentence was already clear before the trial began, the death sentence. Marie Antoinette walks to the guillotine composed and with ...
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Issues Contributed. Explore Issue. purchase. The eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse of France was the only one of their children who survived childhood and the French Revolution. She married her first cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, and was queen of France for roughly twenty minutes in 1830 before abdicating.
In 1756, after three centuries of animosity, France and Austria became allies. To consolidate this diplomatic reconciliation, Louis XV and Empress Maria Theresa decided to marry their respective children. The project came to fruition approximately 12 years later with the marriage of the Duke of Berry, Dauphin of France, aged 15, to Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, aged 14. The ...
On August 13, 1792, Marie Antoinette and her husband Louis XVI and their two children were imprisoned in the Temple in Paris. The French Revolution , which had begun three years before, was reaching a crucial stage and the actions of the king, who had attempted to escape the country, were increasingly under suspicion.
Wertmüller, a painter of Swedish origin, received the commission for a full-length portrait of Marie-Antoinette and her children, which was shown at the Salon in 1785 but was not well received by the critics. In 1788, he took the Queen’s face to make a small head and shoulder portrait. With a hint of a smile, and with her face turned towards ...
Marie Antoinette and Her Children, also known as Marie Antoinette of Lorraine-Habsburg, Queen of France, and Her Children [a] is an oil painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted in 1787, and currently displayed at the Palace of Versailles. [1] Its dimensions are 275 by 216.5 cm (108.3 by 85.2 in).
