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Marie-Thérèse

Born at Versailles, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, otherwise known as “Madame Royale”, was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. She spent her childhood in the court and was one of the few royal children to survive the French Revolution. At first she was sentenced to death by the revolutionaries, but the sentence was commuted to permanent exile. She became Dauphine de France in 1824 and remained devoted to the monarchy for the rest of her life.

Louis-Joseph

Louis Joseph Xavier François (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789) was Dauphin of France as the second child and first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. As son of a king of France, he was a fils de France ("Child of France"). Louis Joseph died aged seven from tuberculosis and was succeeded as Dauphin by his four-year-old brother Louis Charles.

Louis-Charles

Louis-Charles de France, ‘Louis XVII’, was born at Versailles in 1785, just a few short years before the outbreak of the French Revolution. He was locked up along with his family in the Temple prison in 1792, and would never be freed. Louis XVII never ruled; he died in his prison cell at the age of ten, far from the sumptuous luxury of his early years.

Sophie-Beatrice

Sophie Hélène Béatrix de France was Marie Antoinette's and Louis XVI's second daughter and fourth child. She died a few months after her birth from tuberculosis, just before her older brother Louis Joseph, the Dauphin at the time.