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Louis-Charles de France was born at the Palace of Versailles, the second son and third child of his parents, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. [1] He was named after his father and his mother's favourite sister Maria Carolina , Queen of Naples and Sicily, who was known as Charlotte in the family, Charles being the masculine version of her name.
Baron de Richemont (c. 1785-10 August 1853) was one of several people who claimed to be Louis XVII, the Dauphin who died during the French Revolution. His real identity was probably either Henri Hebert (born 1788) or Claude Perrin (born 1786), the former being possibly just the false identity of the latter.
Articles related to Louis XVII (1785-1795), the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.When his father was executed on 21 January 1793, during the middle period of the French Revolution, he automatically succeeded as the king of France, Louis XVII, in the eyes of the royalists.
Karl Wilhelm Naundorff (27 March 1785 (alleged) – 10 August 1845) was a German clockmaker and watchmaker who until his death claimed to be Prince Louis-Charles, or Louis XVII of France, son of Louis XVI, King of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. Naundorff was one of the more stubborn of more than thirty men who claimed to be Louis XVII.
The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium. Despite the name, the actual number of troops ...
Louis XVIII admitted the Count of Artois and his nephews the Dukes of Angoulême and of Berry to the Royal Council in May 1814, upon its establishment. The council was informally headed by Prince Talleyrand. [95] Louis XVIII took a large interest in the goings-on of the Congress of Vienna (set up to redraw the map of Europe after Napoleon's ...
Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux was a fierce republican and anti-Catholic, who had proposed to execute Louis XVI after the flight to Varennes. He promoted the establishment of a new religion, theophilanthropy, to replace Christianity. Jean-François Rewbell had an expertise in foreign relations, and was a close ally of Paul Barras. He ...
Articles relating to Louis XVIII (1755–1824, reigned 1814-1815, 1815-1824) and his reign. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.