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Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
Henriette Campan commented that the boy was unhappy about the adoption from the start, because he missed his biological family: "The arrival of Her Majesty at her apartments at Versailles, holding the little rustic by the hand, astonished the whole household; he cried out with intolerable shrillness that he wanted his grandmother, his brother Louis, and his sister Marianne; nothing could calm him.
The day of his birth in 1802 was June 2 by his son's account, [1]: 210 or June 1 according to his New York Herald obituary [2] and his gravestone. [3] The youngest child of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, he was born less than a year after the death of his oldest brother, Philip Hamilton, after whom he was named. He was ...
The trial of Louis XVI—officially called "Citizen Louis Capet" since being dethroned—before the National Convention in December 1792 was a key event of the French Revolution. He was convicted of high treason and other crimes, resulting in his execution .
King William II, the third son of William the Conqueror, was known as William Rufus. He reigned as King of England from 1087 until his death in 1100, at which point his younger brother, Prince ...
Charles, 1446–1458, brother Louis, 1458–1460, son Charles, 1460–1461, brother Louis XI: Charles, Duke of Berry: Heir presumptive Brother 22 July 1461 Brother became king 4 December 1466 Son born to king Charles I, Duke of Orléans, 1461–1465, 1st cousin –1 Louis II, Duke of Orléans, 1465–1466, 2nd cousin François, Dauphin of France
The Affair of the Necklace is a 2001 American historical drama film directed by Charles Shyer and written by John Sweet, based on the 1785 scandal at the court of Louis XVI that became known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which contributed to discreditation of the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution.
Prince Louis Arthur Charles was eventually born on April 23, 2018, making him fourth royal in line to the throne behind his sister Princess Charlotte, brother Prince George, and father Prince William.