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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.
Jun 4, 2024 · Louis (XVII) 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 French Revolution.
Apr 2, 2014 · Louis XVII was recognized by royalists as the King of France from 1793, when he was 8, until his death in 1795. Updated: Aug 22, 2019. (1785-1795) Synopsis. Louis XVII was born at the...
Feb 1, 2023 · Louis-Charles, dauphin of France, recognized by royalists as King Louis XVII, was imprisoned by revolutionaries during the French Revolution. While in captivity, he suffered from possible abuse and neglect and died of disease on 8 June 1795, at the age of 10.
Apr 22, 2022 · Louis XVII, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antionette, died in Paris at the age of ten. However, could he have been rescued by royalists and actually survived?
Dauphin of France 1785-1795. 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 of France (Louis Charles; 27 March 1785 - 8 June 1795) was the King of France and Navarre from 1793 to 1795. He never actually ruled. He is also known as Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy and Fils de France (son of France). Louis Charles of France was born at the Palace of Versailles.
Louis XVII (Louis Charles), 1785–1795?, titular king of France (1793–95), known in popular legend as the "lost dauphin." The second son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, he became dauphin at the death (1789) of his elder brother.
Oct 6, 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 never actually reigned as king, he was recognized by royalists as France's legitimate monarch upon the execution of his father during the ...
March 27, 1785-June 8, 1795. Born March 1785 as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s second son and third child, Louis-Charles de France became the heir apparent and Dauphin of France when the eldest son, Louis Joseph, passed away in June 1989.
