Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
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Dauphin County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 286,401. The county seat is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth-most populous c
Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg
Louis Joseph was Dauphin of France as the second child and first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. As son of a king of France, he was a fils de France. Louis Joseph died aged seven from tube
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
…Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth-most populous city. The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and was named after Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, the first son of King Louis XVI. Dauphin County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located within the county is…
Portrait by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, 1784. (Nationalmuseum)
Birth certificate of Louis Joseph Xavier François.
Louis Joseph in 1787 (detail of Marie Antoinette and Her Children by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)