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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 .
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.
In October, the former queen of France, Marie Antoinette, was also sent to the guillotine. [8] Louise Élisabeth was devastated by their deaths, and she was equally shocked to hear of the death of Louis-Charles in 1795. [4] Several times over the coming decades, Louise Élisabeth was accosted by various men pretending to be "Louis XVII of ...
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.
Larmuseau et al. (2013) [79] tested the Y-DNA of three living members of the House of Bourbon, one descending from Louis XIII of France via King Louis Philippe I, and two from Louis XIV via Philip V of Spain, and concluded that all three men share the same STR haplotype and belonged to haplogroup R1b (R-M343). The three individuals were further ...
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As Jeanne Louise Victoire was close in age to Prince Louis-Charles (1785–1795), the dauphin (the future King Louis XVII of France), Marie-Antoinette decided to adopt her and keep her in the royal household as his playmate. She gave a new name to her, Zoë.
Baron de Richemont. 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.