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| The third son of Louis-Ferdinand de France, dauphin de Viennois, and of Maria Josepha Carolina Eleonora Franziska Xaveria, princess of Saxony (French: Marie-Josèphe-Caroline-Éléonore-Françoise-Xavière); grandson of King Louis XV; became the heir to the throne after the death of his father (20 Dec 1765); married (16 May 1770) archduchess Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna of Austria (Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe-Jeanne), daughter of Emperor Franz I and Maria Theresia, queen of Hungary and Bohemia, etc.; succeeded Louis XV (1774); summoned (1788) the États-Généraux (Estates-General), which convened at Versailles (5 May 1789); unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the sessions of the Assemblée nationaleConvention nationale (National Convention) (21 Sep 1792); was tried by the National Convention and sentenced to death (16 Jan 1793 - 17 Jan 1793); guillotined in Paris (21 Jan 1793). |
Biographical sources: "Histoire du règne de Louis XVI pendant les années où l'on po
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