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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 .
Charles X named Louis Philippe as Lieutenant général du royaume, a regent to the young Henry V, and charged him to announce his desire to have his grandson succeed him to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the French Parliament at the time, the French equivalent at the time of the UK House of Commons. Louis Philippe did not do this ...
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the king's brother Charles-Phillipe, comte d'Artois met at Pillnitz Castle in Dresden, where on 27 August 1791 they issued a declaration which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his total liberty and the dissolution of the Assembly, and promised an ...
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians .
The route from the Tuileries Palace to Varennes-en-Argonne (approximate distance 250 km). The Flight to Varennes (French: fuite de Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which the French royal family—comprising Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin Louis Charles, Marie-Thérèse, Madame Royale, and Madame Élisabeth ...
Louis IX 1214–1270 King of France r. 1226–1270: Charles V 1338–1380 King of France r. 1364–1380 Valois-Angoulême: 8 generations skipped: 5 generations skipped: Francis I 1494–1547 King of France r. 1515–1547: Antoine of Bourbon 1518–1562 King of Navarre: Jeanne III of Albret 1528–1572: Henry II 1519–1559 King of France r ...
They were brought to the place where the Bastille once stood, and went through Saint-Antoine, Saint-Denis and Saint-Honoré streets before crossing the temporary bridge and arriving at the Champ de Mars. Lafayette leading the oath, 18th c. oil painting, Musée Carnavalet. A mass was celebrated by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, bishop of Autun.
for Charles, brother of King Louis XVI: Duke of Alençon: 1774: Royal family: abolished 1790: for Louis, brother of King Louis XVI: Reign of Louis XVI (10 May 1774 - 21 September 1792 + exec. 21 January 1793) Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre: 1775: Clermont-Tonnerre: abolished 1790 Duke of Berry: 1776: Royal family: abolished 1790: for Charles ...