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Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duke d’AngoulĂȘme
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Louis, duc d'AngoulĂȘme, lithograph by François-SĂ©raphin Delpech after a portrait by Pierre-Louis-Henri-GrĂ©vedon, 1824
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Louis, duc d'AngoulĂȘme, lithograph by François-SĂ©raphin Delpech after a portrait by Pierre-Louis-Henri-GrĂ©vedon, 1824
Louis, duc d'AngoulĂȘme, lithograph by François-SĂ©raphin Delpech after a portrait by Pierre-Louis-Henri-GrĂ©vedon, 1824

Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duke d’AngoulĂȘme

dauphin of France
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Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duke d’AngoulĂȘme (born Aug. 6, 1775, Versailles, France—died June 3, 1844, Gorizia, Venetia, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]) was the last dauphin of France and a prominent figure in the restoration of the Bourbon line after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. AngoulĂȘme was the elder son of the comte d’Artois (afterward Charles X of France) and Marie ThĂ©rĂšse of Savoy. When the revolution broke out in 1789, he left France with...

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