1. Louis XVII-Charles de France was born at the Palace of Versailles, the second son and third child of his parents, Louis XVII XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
13 Facts About Louis XVII
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Louis XVII was named after his father and his mother's favourite sister Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily, who was known as Charlotte in the family, Charles being the masculine version of her name.
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Louis XVII's younger sister, Sophie, was born a little over a year later.
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Louis XVII was replaced by the marquise Louise Elisabeth de Tourzel.
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The fact that Louis XVII Charles was born exactly nine months after he returned to court was noted, but this theory was debunked by most scholars, who reject it, observing that the time of his conception corresponded to a time that Louis XVII XVI and Marie Antoinette had spent a lot of time together.
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Louis XVII was said to have many admirers, but remained a faithful, strong-willed wife and a stern but ultimately loving mother.
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Two days after the departure of the Simons, Louis XVII-Charles is said by the Restoration historians to have been put in a dark room that was barricaded like the cage of a wild animal.
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Louis XVII's room was cleaned, and during the day he was visited by his new attendant, Jean Jacques Christophe Laurent, a creole from Martinique.
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Louis XVII-Charles was then taken out for fresh air and walks on the roof of the Tower.
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Louis XVII in turn put the heart and its crystal urn in the basilica's necropolis of the Kings of France, the burial place of Louis-Charles's parents and other members of the French royal family.
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Louis XVII said he was escaping persecution and settled at Spandau in 1812 as a clockmaker, marrying Johanna Einert in 1818.
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Louis XVII was imprisoned from 1825 to 1828 for coining, though apparently on insufficient evidence, and in 1833 came to push his claims in Paris, where he was recognized as the Dauphin by many persons formerly connected with the court of Louis XVI.
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Williams was a missionary to Native Americans when, according to him, the prince de Joinville, son of Louis XVII-Philippe, met him, and after some conversation asked him to sign a document abdicating his rights in favor of Louis XVII-Philippe, in return for which he, the Dauphin, was to receive the private inheritance which was his.