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Royalist Recognition as Louis XVII
- When
- 21 January 1793
- Where
- Paris
- Part of
- Death of the Dauphin
After Louis XVI's execution on 21 January 1793, royalists held the imprisoned boy to be King Louis XVII, though he never ruled.
When Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793, royalists and foreign powers intent on restoring the monarchy regarded his surviving son as the new king, Louis XVII. France was by then a republic, and because the boy remained imprisoned and died in captivity in June 1795, he never actually ruled.
Sources
- Louis XVII Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-21
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