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In addition to his biological children, Louis XVI also adopted six children: "Armand" Francois-Michel Gagné (c. 1771 –1792), a poor orphan adopted in 1776; Jean Amilcar (c. 1781 –1796), a Senegalese slave boy given to the queen as a present by Stanislas de Boufflers in 1787, but whom she instead had freed, baptized, adopted and placed in a ...
Armand, Ernestine, and Zoë were the only ones among the Queen's foster children to actually live with the royal family, rather than just live at their expense. [1] The Queen called the boy, named François-Michel but called Jacques by his family, [3] by the name Armand, which was the name of the son of her favourite, Madame de Polignac.
The royal remains were exhumed on 18 January 1815 and re-interred in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the royal necropolis of France, on 21 January 1815, the 22nd anniversary of Louis XVI's execution. In March 1815, Napoleon returned to France and rapidly began to gain supporters and raised an army in the period known as the Hundred Days.
Pages in category "Children of Louis XVI" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Jean Amilcar; G.
She was said to have a physical resemblance to Louis XVI and to his daughter Marie Thérèse of France, and because of this, she has sometimes been speculated to be the secret illegitimate daughter of the king. [1] She was the second eldest of her parents' four children, but she was the only one of her siblings to be adopted by the royal family.
A series of votes were held at the end of the trial of Louis XVI to determine his guilt and the appropriate punishment. After voting on two initial questions on Tuesday 15 January, 1793, the députés considered sentencing over 37 uninterrupted hours of debate on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 January.
Here, see the best photos of King Carl XVI Gustaf throughout his life. 1946 Prince Carl Gustaf at just six months old, with his older sister Princess Christina, who is 3 here.
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