Charles X of France

Charles X, King of France and of Navarre (October 9 1757 – November 6 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles. He was the grandson of Louis XV and his Polish queen, Marie Leszczynska, and youngest son of Louis, dauphin de France, who never reigned, and his German wife Marie-Josèphe of Saxony. He was crowned King of France in 1824 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until the French Revolution of 1830 when he abdicated rather than become a constitutional monarch. He was the last king of the senior Bourbon line to reign over France.

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October 9 - 1757 - November 6 - 1836 - Palace of Versailles - Louis XV - Marie Leszczynska - Louis, dauphin de France - Marie-Josèphe of Saxony - King of France - 1824 - Reims - French Revolution of 1830 - Constitutional monarch - Bourbon

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He was the brother of both the executed and deposed King Louis XVI and the post-Napoleonic King Louis XVIII, as well as uncle to the young Louis XVII, who never actually assumed the throne. Before being crowned king, Charles was known as the Comte d'Artois.

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Louis XVI - Louis XVIII - Louis XVII

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He married Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, the daughter of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, on November 16, 1773.

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Marie-Thérèse de Savoie - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy - 1773

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Their children:

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• Louis-Antoine, duc d'Angoulême (Louis XIX) (August 6, 1775 - June 3, 1844)
• Sophie (August 5, 1776 - December 5, 1783)
• Charles-Ferdinand, Duc de Berry (January 24, 1778 - February 13, 1820)
 
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