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Fourth Estate The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
Even casual French history readers will notice a discrepancy in the numbering of their kings--Louis XVI goes to the guillotine in the French Revolution; Louis XVIII returns after the defeat of Napoleon. What happened to Louis XVII? That's the subject of Deborah Cadbury's <I>The Lost King of France</I>. Louis-Charles, heir to Louis XVI, automatically became king, in the eyes of French royalists, when his father was guillotined in 1793. He was, however, an eight-year-old boy and at the mercy of the Revolutionary government. Cadbury's vivid and sympathetic account of his imprisonment and the appallingly abusive treatment he received makes for painful reading.<p> In 1795 the boy king died, still in prison. Or did he? For decades afterward pretender after pretender to the throne appeared, claiming that he was the real Louis. He had been rescued and a substitute child had died in the hands of the revolutionaries. Some claimants were ludicrous. (One was a mixed-race Native American from New York.) Others were so convincing that their descendants still have supporters today. Karl Wilhelm Naundorff persisted with his claim to his deathbed and beyond. His gravestone boldly states that he was the son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.<p> In the second half of her book, Cadbury turns from the sad narrative of Louis the Seventeenth's apparently short life to the mystery of his claimed survival. Finally her book becomes a scientific detective story as the tools of modern DNA testing are used to pinpoint the identity of the boy who died in prison and to investigate the genetic make-up of Naundorff. As both the story of a tragic and short life and a record of how science solved one of the greatest puzzles in French history, <I>The Lost King of France</I> works brilliantly. --<I>Nick Rennison</I>
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HarperCollins The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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Longman Philip Augustus: King of France, 1180-1223 (Medieval World S.)
Pages: 391, Unknown Binding, Longman
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Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Henry, King of France (Tusk Ivories S.)
Pages: 786, Paperback, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
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Fourth Estate The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son
Even casual French history readers will notice a discrepancy in the numbering of their kings--Louis XVI goes to the guillotine in the French Revolution; Louis XVIII returns after the defeat of Napoleon. What happened to Louis XVII? That's the subject of Deborah Cadbury's <I>The Lost King of France</I>. Louis-Charles, heir to Louis XVI, automatically became king, in the eyes of French royalists, when his father was guillotined in 1793. He was, however, an eight-year-old boy and at the mercy of the Revolutionary government. Cadbury's vivid and sympathetic account of his imprisonment and the appallingly abusive treatment he received makes for painful reading.<p> In 1795 the boy king died, still in prison. Or did he? For decades afterward pretender after pretender to the throne appeared, claiming that he was the real Louis. He had been rescued and a substitute child had died in the hands of the revolutionaries. Some claimants were ludicrous. (One was a mixed-race Native American from New York.) Others were so convincing that their descendants still have supporters today. Karl Wilhelm Naundorff persisted with his claim to his deathbed and beyond. His gravestone boldly states that he was the son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.<p> In the second half of her book, Cadbury turns from the sad narrative of Louis the Seventeenth's apparently short life to the mystery of his claimed survival. Finally her book becomes a scientific detective story as the tools of modern DNA testing are used to pinpoint the identity of the boy who died in prison and to investigate the genetic make-up of Naundorff. As both the story of a tragic and short life and a record of how science solved one of the greatest puzzles in French history, <I>The Lost King of France</I> works brilliantly. --<I>Nick Rennison</I>
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Lost King of France, The
When Revolution took over France, the nine-year-old Dauphin was initially preserved, then declared dead, to much controversy. This is a true story of royalty, revolution and mystery, and a detective story of the brief life and many possible deaths of Louis XVII, the son of Marie Antoinette. author: Cadbury, Deborah; publisher: Fourth Estate
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