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| | NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Louis XVI of France |
 | | Louis' mother was Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, second wife of the Dauphin, and the daughter of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. | | | Louis was nowhere near as reactionary as his right-wing brothers, the comte d'Artois and the comte de Provence, and he sent repeated messages publicly and privately calling on them to halt their attempts to launch counter-coups (often through his secretly nominated regent, former minister de Brienne). |
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| | LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS XVII. OF FRANCE |
| | (A. (1754-1793), king of France, was the son of Louis, dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV., and of Marie Joseph of Saxony, and was born at Versailles on the 23rd of August 1754, being baptized as Louis Augustus. | | | Louis Charles became dauphin on the death of his elder brother on the 4th of June 1789. | | | He was a missionary to the Indians when the prince de Joinville, son of Louis Philippe, met him, and after some conversation asked him to sign a document abdicating his rights in favor of Louis Philippe, in return for which he, the dauphin (alias Eleazar Williams), was to receive the private inheritance which was his. |
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| | France Sketch @ MatronOfTheArts.com (Matron of the Arts) |
| | April 10, 2006 - France to replace controversial youth worker law French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the new youth job law that has fuelled protests for the past few weeks is to be replaced by other measures to attack unemployment amongst young adults. | | | Politics and Government - Government of France - Government of France - French law - French politics - Politics of France - Military of France - Foreign relations of France - Flags of France | | | France is also a founding member of the United Nations. |
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| | Louis XVII of France - definition of Louis XVII of France in Encyclopedia |
| | During the French Revolution, Prince Louis was imprisoned with his parents. | | | As the eldest living son of King Louis XVI, he was proclaimed king of France on January 28, 1793 by the declaration of his uncle, "Monsieur" (Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, the Comte de Provence) issued in exile in the city of Hamm, near Dortmund, Westphalia, a territory of the Archbishop of Cologne. | | | While the Royal Family was being held at the forbidding prison of the Temple, he was separated from his mother and sister in the summer of 1793 to prevent any monarchist bid to free him. |
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