page_title: Dauphin of France
section_title: In literature
hierarchical_section_title: Dauphin of France / In literature
caption_attribution_description: This is a lineographic representation of the arms of the Dauphin of France. The arms were created by Jean de Beaugrand from his Panchrestographie published in Paris in 1604. This image was reproduced in George Hanton's French Lineography published in 1927.
context_page_description: Dauphin of France, originally Dauphin of Viennois, was the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 to 1791 and 1824 to 1830. The word dauphin is French for dolphin. At first the heirs were granted the County of Viennois to rule, but eventually only the title was granted.
context_section_description: In Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck encounters two odd characters who turn out to be professional con men. One of them claims that he should be treated with deference, since he is "really" an impoverished English duke, and the other, not to be outdone, reveals that he is "really" the Dauphin ("Looey the Seventeen, son of Looey the Sixteen and Marry Antonet").
  Louis, Duke of Guyenne, the Dauphin of Viennois, is a character in Shakespeare's Henry V.
  In Baronness Emma Orczy's Eldorado, the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues the Dauphin from prison and helps spirit him from France.
  Alphonse Daudet wrote a short story called "The Death of the Dauphin", about a young Dauphin who wants to stop Death from approaching him.
  The Dauphin is also mentioned in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
  "The Dauphin" is a 1988 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. As the titular character is female, the episode title gets the gender incorrect (the French female equivalent is "Dauphine").
caption: A lineographic representation of the arms of the Dauphin. Designed by Jean de Beaugrand in 1604.
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