The unsigned regnal number that let a throne slip away
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The unsigned regnal number that let a throne slip away
In this episode, we follow Louis Antoine of France from Versailles to exile and back, tracing the decisions, refusals, and small paperwork that brought him to a forty-six-word document. What did that single signature cost him, and did it ever truly make him king?
Person: Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême
Date: August 6, 1775 (birth); March 12, 1814 (return to Bordeaux)
Location: Versailles; Bordeaux; Hartwell House; Mittau; Great Pulteney Street, Bath
Event: Exile from 1789 for twenty-five years; return during the Bourbon Restoration
Status: Document surviving with two signatures but no regnal number for the son
- Born heir at Versailles in 1775, raised amid court ceremony until the Bastille in 1789 forced his family into exile.
- Spent twenty-five years as an émigré: served with the Prince of Condé, led a failed Vendée uprising in 1795, and fought at Hohenlinden in 1800 with modest praise.
- Married Marie Thérèse, Louis XVI’s surviving daughter, in 1799 at Mittau; the marriage was unconsummated for over thirteen years, with a documented pregnancy in 1813 that ended in stillbirth.
- Lived from 1807-1814 at Hartwell House on a £300 monthly allowance, twice denied by the Tsar permission to join Russian forces against Napoleon.
- On March 12, 1814, arrived in Bordeaux and signed an archival forty-six-word document bearing both his and his father's signatures - the son identified only as "Louis Antoine," with no crown or regnal number.
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