#louis dauphin of france

[adelaide-of-versailles]

Louis ferdinand is kinda fine. Can you tell me some random stuff about him.

Agreed, anon!

He liked to wear full dress, and complained that he'd look like a coal heaver when in mourning for King Victor

(I find it funny that he said that when his mother came from somewhere now thought of as coal mining central in Poland)

He "always had secrets" to whisper in his mother's ear

His maternal grandmother, Catherine Opalinska, absolutely adored him

He strongly resembled his mother!

Even as a child he gave a lot of money to poor people

He scarred (emotionally) one of his sisters after she swore, giving her a long lecture

(Despite that, later in life he called Pompadour all sorts of words)

He and Henriette hated dancing

He and his sisters and first wife enjoyed talking about death & funerals, playing cards in the 'light of a yellow candle', and telling each other they were dead. Weird hobbies, but they were Bourbons

He disliked sports and theater

He could sing, play violin, organ, and harpiscord, and enjoyed reading a lot

[illustratus]

Tanneguy du Châtel rescuing the Dauphin by Louis Charles Auguste Couder

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)

03/10/2025

[royalty-nobility]

The Dauphin Louis of France, Son of Louis XV

Artist: François-Hubert Drouais (French, 1727-1775)

Date: circa 1745

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis Ferdinand; 4 September 1729 – 20 December 1765) was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and his wife, Queen Marie Leszczyńska. As a son of the king, Louis was a fils de France. As heir apparent, he became Dauphin of France.

[dreamconsumer]

Louis de France (1661-1711) Monseigneur le Dauphin. By Robert Bonnart.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Hubert Drouais (French, 1699-1767) The Dauphin Louis de Bourbon, ca.1744 Museo Nacional del Prado

[giuliettaspalace]

Best scenes of Marie Antoinette Season 1 according TO ME! (Ranked)

[unabashedqueenfury]

Marie Antoinette (2022) • Reign (2013-2017)

Emilia Schüle as Marie Antoinette|

Adelaide Kane as Mary Stuart

[roehenstart]

Marie-Thérèse-Antoinette-Raphaëlle d'Espagne, Dauphine de France (1726-1746). Par Louis-Michel van Loo.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Château Louis XI in La Côte-Saint-André, Dauphiné region of France

French vintage postcard

[felipe-v-fanblog]

The marriage of the Duke of Burgundy to Marie Adelaïde of Savoy on December 7 1697 by Antoine Dieu.

[adelaide-of-versailles]

The mesdames calling madame de pompadour "maman-putain" is so funny to me. Do you have more random funny shot that they (including their brother) did.

Oh anon I was made for this

Dauphin called Madame de Pompadour I belieave "Madame Pompom"

Adelaide, when she was like 9 to 11, escaped to go "bring back the head of the English king like Judith and Holofernes", I believe she got as far as the stables, where a stablehand had a donkey waiting for her. The book I read this from, I can't remember it's name, said "That's the spirit! Here is a heroine with whom the Judith of Bethulia is only a pale moonlight." and honestly I love it

When Dauphin was a child one of his younger sisters- probably Adelaide given the fact that she was one of the few that he saw as a child -slipped a curse word and he gave her such a bad reprimand that she never forgot it and she started crying

Henriette, Adelaide, and Dauphin's wife, Marie Therese Raphaelle, had a little network trying to get rid of Madame de Pompadour, they were *so* into it, Henriette was the first to call her Maman Putain, and Adelaide and Raphaelle devoted themselves to intel. Adelaide was very young at the time and I imagine that was her first foray into politics

One of Adelaide's governesses when she was a teenager accidentally gave her erotica, although this might be false

When Adelaide and Victoire were on their last leg, living in Naples, they had a concert from the governer of the Count of Chastellux, who played the violin (shittily). It was so bad that Adelaide, who was a violinist so good that even the misogynistic men of the French court (Violin was considered a masculine instrument at the time) admitted she was good, took the violin, playing music. Unfortunately, despite the fun that Adelaide was having- which she sorely needed honestly considering this was after the French Revolution -Duchesse de Narbonne gave her a harsh rebuke because she was a Princess. Apparently, an artist named Goubaud, who I believe is Innocent-Louis Goubaud sketched the scene, but I don't believe we have it anymore.

After Louise went to her convent, Madame Campan, Victoire's lady in waiting, asked if Victoire would ever go to a convent. Victoire assured her that she wouldn't, and said, "Here’s the armchair that ruins me", pointing to the chair she was laying in.

Adelaide was called Madame Torchon by her family and friends, even her older sister Louise Elisabeth called her that in a letter. She called herself it in a letter to the Countesse de Civrac, who I believe at the time was Anne-Marie de La Faurie de Monbadan

If I have more I'll add them!

[nuttysaladtree]

[Image description: a poster for said nonexistent TV show, The Dolphin Court. The tag line reads, "In the cutthroat world of Versailles...even love has a secret porpoise". A dolphin's face is edited over the Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) painted by Maurice Quentin de La Tour in 1744. /end ID]

If someone else can identify the dolphin, that would be hilarious (honorary).

seen so many posts that are like “I was so confused when I saw all this posting about some non-existent movie “Goncharov” like it was real” I wasn’t. this happens 5 times a week. my dash is routinely filled to the brim with passionate analysis of absurd-sounding movies and tv shows I have never heard of. I never for a second doubted the existence of a russian mafia movie set in italy with massive numbers of bizarrely named characters and no cohesive understanding of the movie’s themes or plot until I saw a post saying to tag it as unreality. this is tumblr. this happens daily. not one thought crossed my mind except “ha, looks like a few of my mutuals have a new hyperfixation.” this is what tumblr has done to me. you could tell me there’s a new tv show about dolphins with french accents living as royalty in victorian england while secretly starting a cult to renew the worship of the greek gods and the shipping discourse is intense and I would simply think “sounds legit” and keep scrolling

[dreamconsumer]

Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Bourgogne (1682-1712). Par Gerard Edelinck.

[vivelareine]

There's a new graphic novel from the "Who Was?" series called "Who Was Raised to be the Queen of France?" and it's quite short, only covers Marie Antoinette being told she will be dauphine of France and up until she meets Louis for the first time, but it is rather cute.

[tiny-librarian]

On this day in history, August 2nd, in 1830, Marie Therese Charlotte, the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, may have briefly been Queen of France.

Charles X abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Louis Antoine, who was Marie Therese’s husband. In the twenty minutes between the time Charles reluctantly abdicated, and the time his son equally reluctantly did the same in favour of his young nephew, they could be considered King and Queen of France.

There is some debate if they were technically King and Queen, as the abdication document with his and his fathers' signatures was released at the same time, and he's only referred to by his given name of Louis Antoine and as the Dauphin. His "reign" such as it was, if one considers it legitimate, would be the shortest reign in recorded history.