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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 .
Gruau, dit de la Barre, Louis XVII, Intrigues dévoilées (Consultable en ligne) Dejoly, Étienne-Louis-Hector : Mémoires inédits de E.-L.-H. Dejoly sur la journée du 10 août 1792, Édition critique avec une introduction et des notes par Jacques Godechot, Paris, Presses universitaires de France ; (Nancy, impr. de G. Thomas), 1947.
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.
Louis XVIII fled, and a Seventh Coalition declared war on the French Empire, defeated Napoleon again, and again restored Louis XVIII to the French throne. Louis XVIII ruled as king for slightly less than a decade. His Bourbon Restoration government was a constitutional monarchy, unlike the absolutist Ancien Régime in France before the Revolution.
Louis XVI moved to Paris in October of that year, but grew to detest Paris, and organised an escape plot in 1791. The plot, known as the Flight to Varennes, ultimately failed to materialise and severely damaged any positive public opinion for the monarchy. [4] Louis XVIi's brothers-in-exile in Koblenz rallied for an invasion of France.
Portrait of Louis XVIII is an 1814 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard depicting Louis XVIII of France in his coronation robes. [1]Louis XVIII was the younger brother of Louis XVI, who had been guillotined during the French Revolution; he spent many years in exile and returned to France from England following the 1814 downfall of Napoleon and the First Restoration.
The Dauphin Louis–Charles was thereafter proclaimed "Louis XVII of France" by French royalists, but was kept confined and never reigned. He died of illness on 8 June 1795. Louis–Stanislas–Xavier, Count of Provence, was subsequently proclaimed "Louis XVIII", but was in exile from France and powerless.
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.