Louis XVII

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Louis XVII
Dauphin of France
1792 portrait
King of France (claimant)
Tenure	21 January 1793 – 8 June 1795
Predecessor	Louis XVI
Successor	Louis XVIII
Born	Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy (1785-03-27)27 March 1785 Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France
Died	8 June 1795(1795-06-08) (aged 10) Paris Temple, First French Republic
Burial	10 June 1795 Cimetière Sainte-Marguerite, Paris, France
House	Bourbon
Father	Louis XVI
Mother	Marie Antoinette
Religion	Catholicism
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Louis XVII (born Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy; 27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795) was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month before the start of the French Revolution. At his brother's death he became the new Dauphin (heir apparent to the throne), a title he held until 1791, when the new constitution accorded the heir apparent the title of Prince Royal.

When his father was executed on 21 January 1793, during the middle period of the French Revolution, he automatically succeeded as King of France, Louis XVII, in the eyes of the royalists. France was by then a republic and since Louis-Charles was imprisoned and died in captivity in June 1795, he never actually ruled. Nevertheless, in 1814 after the Bourbon Restoration, his uncle acceded to the throne and was proclaimed Louis XVIII.