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Louis Antoine was born at the Palace of Versailles, as the eldest son of Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, the youngest brother of King Louis XVI.He was born one year after the death of his great-grandfather, King Louis XV and 7 years after the death of his great-grandmother, the Queen Marie Leszczyńska.
In November 1787, her nephew Louis XVI granted non-Catholics in France the right to openly practice their religions as well as legal and civil status by the Edict of Versailles. Louise vehemently opposed this law, and sent an eight-page long letter of protest to Louis XVI in which she attacked the Protestants and reproached the king. [10]
Louis Joseph Xavier, styled duke of Burgundy from birth, was born at the Palace of Versailles on September 13 1751. [1] [2] He was the second surviving child and eldest son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony, [3] and was thus the oldest brother to the future kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. [4]
Louis XVI in his coronation robes, by Antoine Callet. The Coronation of Louis XVI the King of France took place at Reims Cathedral on 11 June 1775 which fell on Trinity Sunday. [1] [2] Louis XVI had come to the throne the previous year in succession to his grandfather Louis XV who had reigned for 59 years.
Louis XIII of France (died 1643), called Louis the Just; Louis XIV of France, the 'Sun King' Louis XV of France (died 1774), called the Louis the Beloved; Louis XVI of France (died 1793) executed in the revolution; Louis XVII of France (died 1795), died in prison, never anointed as king; Louis XVIII of France (died 1824), Louis XIX of France ...
As the Count of Artois Charles had spent many years in exile following the execution of his brother Louis XVI in 1793 during the French Revolution. During the later years of the Napoleonic Wars he settled in Britain, returning to France when his brother was restored by Allied Forces in 1814 and again after the Waterloo campaign in 1815.
Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643; Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715; Louis XV, King of France and Navarre from 1715 to 1774; Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791; Louis XVII, the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette; Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre from ...
Duchy-peerage created in 1787 on the lands of Pesmes (Haute-Saône, former marquisate of La Baume-Montrevel) by King Louis XVI in favor of Claude de Choiseul-Beaupré, cousin and husband of the niece of the minister Duke of Choiseul-Stainville and Amboise above, who made Claude his adopted son and heir for the county of Stainville.