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3 June 1844: Death of Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, of sepsis at the age of 68.  The son of the Count of Artois (later Charles X of France), he is less well known than his cousin and wife, Marie-Thérèse, the Duchess of Angoulême, who was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the only one of their offspring to survive the French Revolution.

The Duke was probably a disappointing husband. He lacked his father’s charm and manners, and had a sickly appearance. Even a partisan of the royal family said: “He is small, ugly and awkwardly built. He has very little brains and speaks in an uneducated manner.”

The Duke of Angoulême was widely thought to be impotent or homosexual, and there’s a good chance the marriage was never consummated. There were rumours, probably unfounded, that he ill-treated the Duchess. In public they were courteous to each other. Marshal Macdonald wrote: “[T]hose…who had opportunity for observation, noticed that the young couple were very affectionate and treated each other with the greatest deference and regard.”

When Charles X lost his throne in the July Revolution of 1830, he abdicated in favour of the Duke of Angoulême. The Duke reigned for 20 minutes as King Louis XIX of France before abdicating in favour of his nephew Henri, the Duke of Bordeaux. Unfortunately for the Bourbons, the Chamber of Deputies pronounced the Duke of Orléans (Louis Philippe) their new king. 

The royal family went into exile. They lived first in Edinburgh, and then at the Castle of Hradschin in Prague. When Chateaubriand saw the Duke of Angoulême in 1833, he wrote: “I found him looking older and thinner. He was dressed in a shabby blue coat, buttoned high to the throat; it was too big for him and looked as if it had been bought at a second-hand shop; I felt terribly sorry for the poor Prince.”

The Duke and Duchess of Angoulême both remained greatly attached to Charles X and nursed him through his final illness and death. They lived an austere and monotonous life as trusted friends who shared each other’s sadness. They detached themselves from any political activity and turned increasingly to mysticism. The Marquis de Villeneuve observed: “[T]he couple had become august not only by sorrow nobly borne, but also by the strength of the bond between them, which included absolute leniency towards each other’s failings.”

Portrait of the Duke of Angoulême by Thomas Lawrence, 1825

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Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Admiral of France, Colonel General of the Dragoons and the Cuirassiers.

He was the eldest son of Charles X and after his resignation on 2nd August 1830 as a result of the July revolution, Louis technically reigned less than 20 minutes before resigning himself. After his father’s death in 1836, Louis Antoine became a legitimist pretender under the name of Louis XIX.

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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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Saint-Just, portrait 1835

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, né le 25 août 1767 à Decize (Nivernais) et mort guillotiné le 10 thermidor an II (28 juillet 1794) à Paris, est un homme politique français de la Révolution française. Le plus jeune des élus à la Convention nationale, Saint-Just était membre du groupe des Montagnards. Soutien indéfectible de Robespierre, il est emporté dans sa chute, le 9 thermidor.

D'une éloquence remarquée, il se distingue par l'intransigeance de ses principes prônant l'égalité et la vertu ainsi que par l'efficacité de ses missions au cours desquelles il redresse la situation de l'armée du Rhin et participe à la victoire des armées républicaines à Fleurus. Combattant politiquement les Girondins, les Hébertistes puis les Indulgents, il fait voter la confiscation des biens des ennemis de la République au profit des patriotes pauvres. Il est notamment l'inspirateur de la Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1793.

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3 June 1844: Death of  Louis Antoine, the Duke of Angoulême, son of the Count of Artois (Charles X) and nephew of Louis XVIII. He married his cousin, Marie-Thérèse, the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the only one of their offspring to survive the French Revolution. “T]he couple had become august not only by sorrow nobly borne, but also by the strength of the bond between them, which included absolute leniency towards each other’s failings.”