Louis XVI
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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)
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 XVI
…a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. Both of his sons died in childhood, before the Bourbon Restoration; his only child to reach adulthood, Marie Thérèse, was released to her Austrian relatives in exchange for French prisoners of war, eventually dying childless in 1851. Louis-Auguste de France, who was…
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)