Louis XVII separated from his mother, Marie Antoinette

 

 On this day ~ 3rd July 1793 
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 Louis XVII separated from his mother, Marie Antoinette 

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 In 1793, France was in shambles.

The public had overthrown the monarchy, and imprisoned the royal family.

After the execution of Louis XVI, his eight-year-old son, Louis XVII, was technically now the King of France.

 While Marie Antoinette was initially allowed to stay with her children, the authorities soon separated them.

On 3rd July, Louis was separated from his mother Marie Antoinette, and put in the care of a cobbler, by the name of Antoine Simon.

The tales told by royalist writers of the cruelty inflicted by Simon and his wife on Louis, have not been proved.

Louis sister Marie Therese, wrote in her memoirs about the "monster Simon"

The foreign secretaries of Britain and Spain also heard accounts from their spies, that the boy was rAped by pr0stitutes, in order to infect him with venereal diseases.

 Eventually young Louis was imprisoned in the Temple Prison..

Louis is said by historians, to have been put in a dark room that was barricaded like the cage of a wild animal.

The story recounts that food was passed through the bars to the boy, who survived despite the accumulated filth of his surroundings.

 Isolated and scared, Louis began to display signs of emotional instability.

He was forced by his jailers to give a statement that he had been sexually molested by his mother and his aunt, Louis XVI’s sister.

This charge, his heartbroken mother fiercely denied at her trial.

Louis died in prison on 8th June 1795, he was just 10 years old.

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 Sources - Biography/wiki/louis-xvii-dauphin

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 Louis XVII aged 7 in 1792

By Alexander Kucharsky