What happened to the children of Louis XVI and Maria Antionette after their death?
Louis XVI and Maria Antionette had four children, however, two died before the French Revolution. The remaining two were Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (sole survivor of the French Revolution) and Louis-Charles (died in prision during the French Revolution). Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851) was allowed to leave France and taken to Vienna, where her cousin ruled as Emperor Francis II after the execution of her parents. Marie-Thérèse later left Vienna and moved to Mittau, Courland, where her father’s eldest surviving brother, Louis-Stanislas, Comte de Provence, lived as a guest of Czar Paul I of Russia. Louis-Joseph-Xavier-François (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789) ) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the Dauphin. A sweet-natured child, Louis-Joseph died at the age of seven of what was then known as “consumption” (tuberculosis). Louis-Charles (the futur
