Episode 3 of 3
Death of Louis XVII in the Temple
- When
- 8 June 1795
- Where
- Temple prison, Paris
- Part of
- Death of the Dauphin
Louis-Charles died in his cell in the Temple on 8 June 1795 after two years of physical decline.
After two years of increasing physical decay, the ten-year-old prince died in his cell at the Temple on 8 June 1795. Days earlier, on 6 June, Pelletan had observed that his limbs were wasted, his stomach enlarged, and that he suffered chronic diarrhoea. A report later stated that a child of about ten, identified as the late Louis Capet's son, had died of a scrofulous infection of long standing, today called tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis.
Sources
- Louis XVII Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-21
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