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Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when
The young Duke of Berry (right) with his younger brother, the Count of Provence (by François-Hubert Drouais, 1757)
The young duke of Berry painted by Jean-Martial Frédou, c. 1760
Marie Antoinette, queen of France and wife of Louis XVI, with their three eldest children, Marie Thérèse, Louis-Charles and Louis-Joseph (by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1787)
Louis, Dauphin of France was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska. As the son of the king, Louis was a fils de France. As heir apparent, he became Dauphin of F
Louis XVI
…French: ; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765. In 1770, he married…
![Portrait by Anne-Baptiste Nivelon [fr], 1764](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Louis_de_France%2C_dauphin_%281764%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Louis_de_France%2C_dauphin_%281764%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Portrait by Anne-Baptiste Nivelon [fr], 1764
Louis with his mother Maria Leszczynska, c. 1730
Louis de France at the age of 9 in a study with a globe and a fortification treatise, by Louis Tocqué
Masked ball at Versailles for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, to María Teresa Rafaela of Spain, 1745.