If you would like to know more about the day Louis-Charles was separated from his mother, please read my blog piece: On This Day: Adieu ma chère mère
Here is a small gallery if images depicting those final days.
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| The Temple Prison, where poor little Louis-Charles was kept in squalor. |
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| Louis-Charles, at eight-years-old |
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| Louis XVI giving his son, Louis-Charles, a geography lesson in the Temple Prison. |
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| Marie Antoinette being forcibly separated from her sickly son, Louis-Charles. She would never hold him again. |
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| Louis-Charles, son of Marie Antoinette, and one of his keepers. Possibly Antoine Simon. |
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| An emotionally charged engraving of Antoine Simon whipping Louis Charles. Madame Simon looking on. |
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| An engraving of Louis-Charles as he appeared in prison. |
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| A highly idealized and emotional engraving of Louis-Charles kneeling on a cloud, his hands clasped in supplication, as the Dove of Peace brings him a feather. This image was produced after Louis-Charles's death. |
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| An lovely engraving of Louis-Charles as he appeared before being imprisoned. |
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| The heart of Louis-Charles. |
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