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
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)
Geneviève Poitrine
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Geneviève Poitrine, known as Madame Poitrine, was a wet nurse of the Dauphin of France, Louis Joseph, son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. Poitrine was retrospectively accused of transmit
Alleged portrait of Madame Poitrine, nurse of the first Dauphin by "A de Peters"
