The monograms of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on a box made for the birth of their first son, Louis Joseph. [image: (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot]
Marie Antoinette and Her Children (Detail) by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
On Easter Sunday, 27 March 1785, Marie Antoinette gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Just 30 minutes after birth, the boy was baptised as Louis Charles, and he was created Duke of Normandy. His elder brother Louis Charles was still the Dauphin. Marie Antoinette's sister Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples, was to be his godmother and the name Charles paid tribute to her.
'Madame Royale and Louis XVII in the Temple Prison.' An engraving of Marie-Therese Charlotte and Louis Charles, children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, imprisoned in the Temple. Bourbon...
Since many readers find their way to this site while searching for information on the children of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, I thought...
Was Louis XVI really the father?
tiny-librarian: These changes were, however, due as much to serial pregnancy as to aging: on March 27th, 1785, the Queen gave birth to a second son, Louis Charles. Despite a new spate of rumors about the child’s dubious paternity (Charles, after all,was the first name of the Comte d’Artois), his parents were delighted, as a second son placed the succession on a very strong footing. Elated, Marie Antoinette dubbed the boy, who was much more beautiful than either of his older siblings, her chou d’amour, or sweetheart, and devoted herself more enthusiastically than ever to motherhood. Queen of Fashion, What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution - Caroline Weber
Portrait of a lady, by Józef Męcina-Krzesz, 1920. Princess Augusta of Bavaria with her daughters Joséphine and Eugénie, by Andrea Appiani, 1809. Princess Joséphine, the future queen of Sweden and Norway, points to the location in Hungary where her father, Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy and stepson of Napoléon, led a military victory against the Austrian army at the Battle of Raab, 14 June 1809. Alda Weston, Lady Hoare, in a Green Cloak, by St. George Hare, 1909-10. Karoline von Schlotheim, by Wilhelm Böttner, 1788. The sisters Karolina and Anna Strauss, ballet dancers from the Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, by Jan Ksawery Kaniewskicirca, 1853. Queen María Cristina of Spain, by José Moreno Carbonero, 1906. ^ Her daughter-in-law, Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain, by José Moreno Carbonero, 1912. The painter and the portrait. The daughters of Puerto Rican governor Ramón de Castro, by José Campeche y Jordán,1797. Marie Antoinette as a Vestal Virgin, by François Dumont, circa 1791 or later. There are several versions of this, some if not most created after her death. Zinaida Ivanova, comtesse de Chauveau, formerly Princess Yussupova (née Narishkina), by Gerasim Ignatievich Kadunov, 1858. Marina, Duchess of Kent, by Simon Elwes, circa 1955-60. In 1945, at the height of his career, Elwes suffered a near-fatal stroke which paralyzed his right side, including his painting hand. He re-taught himself to paint with his left and went on to even greater success. The Chinese Girl, also known as The Green Lady, Monika Pon-su-san, by Vladimir Tretchikoff, 1952. Portrait of Zofia with cacti, by Tadeusz Pruszkowski, 1920. Possibly Claire Josèphe Hippolyte Léris de Latude, a French actress known professionally as mademoiselle Clairon, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, circa 1750. Octavie Wylezynska, baronne de Löwenthal, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1859. Eugenii Dunin-Borkowskiej, by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, also known as "Witkacy", 1912. Marie-Thérése Charlotte of France, dauphine and duchesse d'Angoulême, by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1816. Grand Duchess Sergei, Elisaveta Feodorovna, by Friedrich August von Kaulbach, circa 1892. ^ Her niece and ward, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, Princess Wilhelm, Duchess of Södermanland, by Bernhard Österman, 1913. Young Woman with a Fan, by Simon Maris, circa 1906. The model appears to be wearing an early 19th-century costume. Mrs. Frederick L. Pratt, neé Jeannie Williams, by Philip de László, 1928. ^ Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert Livingston Fryer, neé Melissa Dodge Pratt, by Philip de László, 1923. Portrait de l'impératrice Eugénie en costume de dogaresse, the Empress Eugénie in a Venetian-style costume she wore to a ball on 9 February 1863. The genre photographer "Marck" added - in oil paint - color and an imaginary Venetian background to the original photograph. Circa 1850s.
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Sophie Philippine Élisabeth Justine de France,[1] was a French princess, a fille de France; she was the sixth daughter and eighth child of Louis XV of France and his queen consort Marie Leszczyńska. First known as Madame Cinquième , she later became Madame Sophie. She and her sisters were collectively known as Mesdames.
