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)
Marie Thérèse of France
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Marie-Thérèse was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, th
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
…Dauphin, his father's heir to the throne of France, as Salic Law, which excluded women from acceding to the throne, applied to his elder sister, Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Madame Royale. The birth of Louis Joseph put an end to the hopes of his uncle, the comte de Provence, of succeeding his brother Louis XVI. His private…
Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1816
Marie-Thérése with her brother, Louis Joseph (by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1785)
Marie-Thérèse in Vienna in 1796 soon after her departure from France (by Heinrich Friedrich Füger)
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (collection Musée de la Légion d'honneur)