The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son
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Deborah Cadbury. The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son
THE. LOST KING. OF FRANCE
Deborah Cadbury
Contents
INTRODUCTION: THE HEART OF STONE
1 ‘THE FINEST KINGDOM IN EUROPE’
2 ‘GRÂCE POUR MAMAN’
3 THE TUILERIES
4 ‘GOD HIMSELF HAS FORSAKEN ME’
5 THE YOUNG SANS CULOTTE
6 THE ORPHAN OF THE TEMPLE
7 FARCE AND FRAUD
8 RETURN OF THE LILIES
9 THE SHADOW KING
10 THE ROYAL CHARADE
11 RESOLUTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES ON SOURCES. 1: ‘The Finest Kingdom in Europe’
2: ‘Grâce pour Maman’
3: The Tuileries
4: ‘God Himself has Forsaken Me’
5: The Young Sans Culotte
6: The Orphan of the Temple
7: Farce and Fraud
8: Return of the Lilies
9: The Shadow King
10: The Royal Charade
11: Resolution
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE
PRAISE
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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THE TRAGIC STORY OFMARIE-ANTOINETTE’S FAVOURITE SON
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Now over two hundred years old, this child’s heart has had a remarkable journey through time. Cut hurriedly from the supposed Dauphin’s body during his autopsy in the Temple prison in 1795 and smuggled out in a handkerchief, the heart which once raced and quickened to the Terror of the revolution even in death became a symbol to be treasured or despised. Preserved merely to be stolen once more, hidden in grand palaces and lost again during the revolution of 1830, only with the passage of time, as the years slowly buried all painful memories, was the child’s heart quietly forgotten, eventually coming to rest by the coffins in La Chapelle des Princes.
With recent developments in forensic science it has become possible to uncover one of the most enduring secrets of the French revolution – what actually happened to the Dauphin – and for his true identity to be revealed. With improvements in the restoration of ancient DNA and the analysis of special genes inherited from the maternal line, known as mitochondrial DNA, the petrified heart of the child offers a possible end to two hundred years of speculation.
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