Madame Élisabeth
Birth: 1764
Death: 1794
The youngest sibling of Louis XVI, she was known by title 'Madame Élisabeth de France'. Unlike Louis's brothers she did not emigrate. Instead, she remained with the royal family in Paris, first in the Tuileries Palace and then in the Temple prison after the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792. After Louis and Marie-Antoinette's earlier demise Élisabeth was herself sent to the guillotine late in the Terror, in May 1794.
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Appears in these Letters:
1789
14 October: A King Imprisoned? The October Days
On 5-6 October 1789, a Parisian crowd led by thousands of women marched out to demonstrate at Versailles and forced the royal family to relocate to...
1791
30 June: Capture at Varennes: The Humiliation of a King
Here the duchess sifts through the wreckage of the royal family's thwarted attempt to escape Paris in June 1791. Before leaving on what would become...
