Louis Joseph Xavier de Bourbon, duc de Bourgogne

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 (Redirected from Louis of France (1751-1761)) Jump to: navigation, search Louis Joseph Xavier Duke of Burgundy Louis wearing the L'Ordre du Saint-Esprit and the Order of the Golden Fleece Father 	Louis Ferdinand de France Mother 	Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony Born 	13 September 1751(1751-09-13) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France Died 	22 March 1761 (aged 9) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

Louis Joseph Xavier de France, Duke of Burgundy (13 September, 1751, Palace of Versailles - 22 March, 1761, Palace of Versailles) was a French Prince du Sang of the House of Bourbon. Contents [show]

   * 1 Life

   * 2 Siblings

   * 3 Ancestors

   * 4 Titles, styles, honours and arms

         o 4.1 Titles and styles

   * 5 Tiltes

[edit] Life

Louis Joseph Xavier de France, duc de Bourgogne was the third surviving child and eldest son of Dauphin Louis Ferdinand de France and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, and was thus the oldest brother to the future kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X.

He was put in the care of Marie Isabelle de Rohan, duchesse de Tallard.

Louis Joseph Xavier was given the title of Duke of Burgundy by his grandfather, Louis XV of France, and was next in line to the throne of France after his father. He was much loved by those who were close to him, especially his older sister Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France, who died at the age of five in 1755.

He died at the age of nine at Versailles after having fallen from a toy horse in 1760. He started limping and a tumour began to grow on his hip. This was operated on, but he never recovered the use of his legs. He was buried at the Basilica of St Denis. [edit] Siblings

   * Stillborn son in 1748

   * Stillborn son in 1749

   * Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France (26 August 1750 – 1 September 1755)

   * Stillborn daughter in 1752

   * Xavier of France (8 September 1753 – 22 February 1754)

   * Louis XVI of France (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793)

   * Louis XVIII of France (17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824)

   * Stillborn son in 1756

   * Charles X of France (9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836)

   * Clothilde of France (23 September 1759 – 7 March 1802), married King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, Prince of Piedmont

   * Miscarriage of a son in 1762

   * Princess Élisabeth of France (3 May 1764 – 10 May 1794), known as Madame Élisabeth (guillotined)

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