num_pages: 170
description: The Son of Louis XVI (Le Fils de Louis XVI in French) by Lon Bloy is a monograph on the life of Louis-Charles de France youngest son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette both executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution. The eight-year-old Dauphin and rightful heir to the throne was kept in captivity in the Temple Tower where he is said to have died in 1795.Others contend that he survived that he escaped the Temple in 1795 through an intrigue instigated by Josephine Beauharnais of all people. He resurfaces in Prussia in 1810 as Charles-William Naundorff the pretender. When he tries to regain contact with his sister the saintly Duchess dAngoulme she will have none of it.One did what one could to kill him. The most barbaric imprisonments knife fire poison calumny fierce ridicule dark misery and black chagrin all were employed. One succeeded in the end when God had had enough of guarding over him... when he had succeeded in bearing his penance of sixty kings.Louis XVII universally rejected reigned however for fifty years from 1795 year of his supposed death to 1845. He reigned demonetized invisible and all-powerful by the very impossibility of proving that he did not exist.
language: English
title: The Son of Louis XVI
publisher: Sunny Lou Publishing