Marie Thérèse Charlotte (Bourbon) de France (1778 - 1851)

Born 19 Dec 1778 in Versailles, Île-de-France, France

Ancestors

Wife of Louis-Antoine (Bourbon) de France — married 9 Jun 1799 in Mittau, Semgallen, Gouvernement Kurland, Russisches Reich

Died 19 Oct 1851 at age 72 in Schloss Frohsdorf, Lanzenkirchen, Österreich unter der Enns, Kaisertum Österreich

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Biography

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, nicknamed "Mousseline la Sérieuse" by her mother, was the first child of Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie-Antoinette, and the only one to survive the events of the French Revolution.

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was born in Versailles on 19 December 1778, eight years after her parents' marriage. She was baptized on the same day. She was named after her godparents: her maternal grandmother, Empress Maria Theresia of Austria (represented by Madame, Marie-Josèphe Louise de Savoie, comtesse de Provence), and King Charles III of Spain (represented by Monsieur, Louis-Stanislas-Xavier de France, comte de Provence, brother of the King).^[1]

She had two younger brothers, Louis-Joseph-Xavier (born 1781) and Louis-Charles (born 1785). Her sister Sophie, born 1786, died in infancy.

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was not yet 10 years old when the French Revolution broke out.

She was buried in the crypt of the Frančiškanski samostan Kostanjevica in Görz in the Austrian Empire, now Nova Gorica in Slovenia.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ acte de baptême: Archives départementales des Yvelines, Versailles, Notre-Dame, 1778-1778, B, Cote 1112508, vue 121, consulté le 19 octobre 2019, lien permanent: https://archives.yvelines.fr/ark:/36937/s0053cfc54f5af33/53cfc54fc4283
2. ↑ Tomb of Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, Madame Royale, Wikimedia Commons

• Marie-Thérèse de France, Wikipedia-FR
• Marie-Thérèse of France, Wikipedia-EN
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 October 2019), memorial page for Marie-Therese-Charlotte of France (19 Dec 1778–19 Oct 1851), Find A Grave: Memorial #26465544, citing Church of Saint Mary of the Annunciation, Nova Gorica, Mestna občina Nova Gorica, Goriška, Slovenia ; Maintained by Find A Grave .