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In addition to his biological children, Louis XVI also adopted six children: "Armand" Francois-Michel Gagné (c. 1771 –1792), a poor orphan adopted in 1776; Jean Amilcar (c. 1781 –1796), a Senegalese slave boy given to the queen as a present by Stanislas de Boufflers in 1787, but whom she instead had freed, baptized, adopted and placed in a ...
On 21 January 1793, Louis XVI was executed on the guillotine, at which time Marie-Thérèse's young brother Louis Charles was recognized as King Louis XVII of France by the royalists. In March 1793 General Charles François Dumouriez came up with the idea to restore the monarchy and free Marie-Antoinette and her children.
Children of Louis XVI, including the adoptive ones. Pages in category "Children of Louis XVI" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Armand, Ernestine, and Zoë were the only ones among the Queen's foster children to actually live with the royal family, rather than just live at their expense. [1] The Queen called the boy, named François-Michel but called Jacques by his family, [3] by the name Armand, which was the name of the son of her favourite, Madame de Polignac.
She still hoped her son Louis-Charles, whom the exiled Count of Provence, Louis XVI's brother, had recognized as Louis XVI's successor, would one day rule France. The royalists and the refractory clergy , including those preparing the insurrection in Vendée , supported Marie Antoinette and the return to the monarchy.
Jean Amilcar (c. 1781–1796) was the adopted son (foster child) of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France. [1]Jean Amilcar was from French Senegal.He was enslaved as a child and then bought from local slavers by the French official Chevalier de Boufflers, who wished to spare him the deadly transatlantic crossing. [2]
The birth of Louis Joseph put an end to the hopes of his uncle, the comte de Provence, of succeeding his brother Louis XVI. His private household was created upon his birth. He was under the care of Victoire de Rohan , the Governess of the Children of France , until she was replaced in 1782 by Yolande de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac , one of ...
His eldest surviving son, Louis-Auguste, duc de Berry, became the new dauphin, [55] [54] ascending the throne as Louis XVI at the death of Louis XV, in May 1774. [56] Louis was buried in the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne in Sens [55] at the Monument to the Dauphin of France & Marie-Josephe of Saxony, designed and executed by Guillaume Coustou ...