Marie Antoinette and Her Son
By Luise Mühlbach
- Release Date: 2013-12-15
- Genre: History
Description
This interesting biography, told in the style of a historical romance novel, relates the lives of Marie Antoinette and her second child and eldest son, Louis Joseph, the Dauphin of France. Born in October of 1781, Louis Joseph was to become the heir to the French throne upon the death of his father, King Louis XVI. In 1789, Just as the French Revolution was coming underway, the Dauphin died of a severe illness at the age of seven, just under four years before his mother and father would be executed.
