Marie Joséphine of Savoy
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Marie Joséphine of Savoy was a princess of France and Countess of Provence by marriage to the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was regarded by Bourbon royalist Legitimists as the titular 'Queen
Portrait by Joseph Boze, 1786
Marie Joséphine as a child (by Giuseppe Duprà)
Marie Joséphine in 1772 (by François-Hubert Drouais)
Marie Joséphine in 1782 (by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
Victor Amadeus III
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Victor Amadeus III was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 20 February 1773 to his death in 1796. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative re
Marie Joséphine of Savoy
…actually became king in 1814. Marie Joséphine was born at the Royal Palace of Turin on 2 September 1753 as the third child and second daughter of Prince Victor Amadeus of Savoy and Infanta Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. At the time of her birth, her paternal grandfather, Charles Emmanuel III, was the King of Sardinia, thus…
Prince Victor Amadeus with his father, portrait by Clementi
Family of the future King of Sardinia in 1760, Giuseppe Duprà