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Louis XVII of France

1785 - 1795

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Louis XVII (born Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy; 27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795) was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month before the start of the French Revolution. At his brother's death he became the new Dauphin (heir apparent to the throne), a title he held until 1791, when the new constitution accorded the heir apparent the title of Prince Royal. When his father was executed on 21 January 1793, during the middle period of the French Revolution, he automatically succeeded as King of France, Louis XVII, in the eyes of the royalists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis XVII of France is the 199th most popular politician (up from 211th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from France (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Politician.

Louis XVII was the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He was imprisoned in the Temple Tower, where he died of tuberculosis at the age of 10.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis XVII of France ranks 199 out of 19,576. Before him are Pepin the Short, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Napoleon II, Lee Kuan Yew, Orhan, and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. After him are Cardinal Richelieu, James V of Scotland, Harald Bluetooth, Philip II of Macedon, William I, German Emperor, and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Louis XVII of France ranks 1. After him are Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Thomas De Quincey, Alessandro Manzoni, Karl Drais, Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1795, Louis XVII of France ranks 1. After him are Alessandro Cagliostro, François-André Danican Philidor, Sayat-Nova, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Georg Benda, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis XVII of France ranks 62 out of 6,770. Before him are Stendhal (1783), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Philip IV of France (1268), and Napoleon II (1811). After him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Maurice Ravel (1875), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), and Hector Berlioz (1803).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Louis XVII of France ranks 17. Before him are Napoleon III (1808), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Claudius (-10), Henry IV of France (1553), Philip IV of France (1268), and Napoleon II (1811). After him are Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Francis I of France (1494), Charles X of France (1757), Jacques Chirac (1932), Henry III of France (1551), and Louis IX of France (1214).

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