#dauphin de france

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Le Grand Dauphin.

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Louis, Grand Dauphin, father of King Felipe V of Spain. By Henri and Charles Beaubrun.

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LOUIS-ANTOINE

Dauphin of France

(born 1775 - died 1844)

pictured above is a portrait of the Dauphin of France, by William Corden (the Elder) from 1847, after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence from 1825

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SERIES - On this day August Edition: Louis-Antoine was born on 6 August 1775.

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LOUIS-ANTOINE was born on 6 August 1775, at the Palace of Versailles, during the reign of his uncle Louis XVI, King of France. He was the first child of Charles-Philippe, Count of Artois and Princess Marie-Thérèse of Sardinia. He was a member of the third HOUSE OF BOURBON also known as the Capetian House of Bourbon.

His name was LOUIS-ANTOINE D'ARTOIS because of his father's title. And after his birth his uncle created him DUKE OF ANGOULÊME, the title he was and still is most linked.

When the French Revolution arose in 1789 many Royals fled into exile to different parts of Europe and his immediate family initially took refuge in Turin with his mother's relatives.

By the end of the 18th century his uncle King Louis XVI was deposed and guillotined and another of his uncles Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence proclaimed himself as the Louis XVIII, King of France.

Soon, he and the remaining members of the exiled Royal Family were reunited in Courland (at that time governed by the Russian Empire, current in Latvia). While there he married his first cousin MARIE-THÉRÉSE CHARLOTTE in 1799. She was a Princess of France and the only surviving child of the late King Louis XVI and Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria (known as Queen Marie Antoinette). They did not have children.

Over the next years the exiled French Bourbons had to leave Courland do to politics and lived in Poland, Russia and the United Kingdom.

Napoléon I, Emperor of the French was first defeated, forced to abdicate and exiled in 1814, and the Bourbons were allowed to return to France where the his uncle was officially recognized as the King of France.

However barely a year later Emperor Napoléon I fled from his exile and the Bourbons had to leave France, during what is known as the Hundred Days. By July 1815 the Emperor Napoléon I was defeated for good and the Bourbons returned to France once again.

In 1824 his uncle King Louis XVIII died and was succeeded by the Duke's father as Charles X, King of France. So as the French heir he became the DAUPHIN OF FRANCE.

But unfortunatley his father's reign lasted only until the July Revolution of 1830. At the beginning of August 1830 his father was forced to abdicate and on the same day he also renounced his rights of succession, ending the Bourbon French Monarchy forever.

He and his family were forced to live in exile again and could never return to France. While in exile the former Dauphin adopted the courtesy title of COUNT OF MARNES.

From 1832 the exiled Bourbons lived in the Austrian Empire, by favor of Emperor Franz I and his son Emperor Ferdinand I.

Both the former Dauphin and his father died in the town of Gorizia (at that time part of the Austrian Empire and now a comune in Italy). The Count of Marnes died aged 68, in 1844.

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As he did not have any children, his nephew Henri, Count of Chambord inherited the Bourbon claim to the French throne, known as Legitimist. However his nephew also died without heirs in 1883 and so the Spanish Bourbons became the Legitimists claimants to the French throne.

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Louis Joseph Xavier François de Bourbon, Dauphin de France (1781-1789).

God’s purest and most perfect little angel, mayest thou rest happily in heaven.

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Jean-François Blondel (1705-1774) - Paris. Vue perspective de l'intérieur d'une des salles de la place de Louis-le-Grand, 1745

Fêtes publiques données par la Ville de Paris à l’occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 février MDCCXLV

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Jean de France, Duc de Touraine (1398-1417).

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The Dauphin Charles-Orlant. By Jean Hey.