I've always wondered, because I can't imagine the revolutionnaries letting them live, but I know for a fact that there was a Louis XVIII who came after Napoleon.
2007-02-23 23:47:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Her son Louis Charles (now King Louis XVII) was kept in a dark, filthy cell until he died of tuberculosis in 1795. In future years many men came forward claiming to be the long-lost prince. The most believable was Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, who died in Holland in 1845, but DNA tests later established that Naundorff was not related to Marie Antoinette. Moreover, DNA experts announced in April 2000 that tests conducted on the heart of the boy who died in prison proved once and for all that he was, in fact, Marie Antoinette's son.
Marie Antoinette's daughter, Madame Royale, survived the revolution. She became the duchesse d'Angouleme and lived to see the reigns of her uncles Louis XVIII and Charles X. She had no children.
2007-02-23 23:58:30 · answer #1 · answered by Taffy Saltwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dauphin (Crown Prince) Louis technically became Louis XVII after the execution of his father, but in reality died of neglect, brutality and malnutrition in the Bastille prison at about the age of 13.
His older sister, Marie Therese, was allowed to go and live with her mother's family in Austria and lived a quiet, comfortable life into old age. I don't know if her descendants contributed to the French line again after that.
2007-02-23 23:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two of her four children died before the Revolution. The living son The Dauphin (Heir Apparent) died while in captivity. His sister was released after the Terror was over, left France and only returned during the Bourbon Restoration.
2007-02-24 00:03:10 · answer #3 · answered by Holly R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They ate cake.
2007-02-23 23:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are very well off.
2007-02-23 23:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by tnkumar1 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋