Dauphin

Examples of Dauphin in the following topics:

• Louis XV

  • His grandfather and Louis XIV's son, Louis Le Grand Dauphin (Dauphin being the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France), had three sons with his wife Marie Anne Victoire of Bavaria: Louis, Duke of Burgundy; Philippe, Duke of Anjou (who became King of Spain); and Charles, Duke of Berry.
  • In April 1711, Louis Le Grand Dauphin suddenly died, making Louis XV's father, the Duke of Burgundy, the new Dauphin.
  • Fearing that the Dauphin (the older son) would die, the Court had both the Dauphin and the Duke of Anjou baptized.
  • The Dauphin died the same day.
  • The Duke of Anjou, and now after his brother's death the Dauphin, survived the smallpox.

• Marriage to Marie-Antoinette

  • Maria Antonia formally renounced all her rights to the Habsburg domains and was married to the Dauphin of France the same year.
  • Simultaneously, the Dauphine was beautiful, personable and well-liked by the common people.
  • Upon the death of Louis XV in 1774, the Dauphin ascended the throne as King Louis XVI of France and Navarre, and Marie Antoinette became Queen of France and Navarre.
  • In the same year, Marie Antoinette gave birth to her second child, Louis Joseph Xavier François, Dauphin of France.
  • Despite the general celebration over the birth of the Dauphin, Marie Antoinette's political influence, such as it was, did greatly benefit Austria.

• Louis XVI

  • Out of seven children, he was the second son of Louis, the Dauphin of France, and thus the grandson of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
  • Upon the death of his father, who died of tuberculosis in 1765, the eleven-year-old Louis-Auguste became the new Dauphin.
  • While none doubted Louis's intellectual ability to rule France, it was quite clear that, although raised as the Dauphin since 1765, he lacked firmness and decisiveness.

• The Question of Spanish Succession

  • This agreement divided Spain's Italian territories between Louis's son le Grand Dauphin and the Archduke Charles, with the rest of the empire awarded to Joseph Ferdinand.
  • The Dauphin would receive all of Spain's Italian territories.
  • On his deathbed in 1700, Charles II unexpectedly offered the entire empire to the Dauphin's second son Philip, Duke of Anjou, provided it remained undivided.

• The New Royals and Their People

  • In the same year, Marie Antoinette gave birth to her second child, Louis Joseph Xavier François, Dauphin of France.
  • Despite the general celebration over the birth of the Dauphin, Marie Antoinette's political influence, such as it was, continued to benefit Austria, which contributed to her growing unpopularity.

• The First French Republic and Regicide

  • His royal seal was to go to the Dauphin and his wedding ring to the Queen.
  • The body of Louis XVI was immediately transported to the old Church of the Madeleine (demolished in 1799), since the legislation in force forbade burial of his remains beside those of his father, the Dauphin Louis de France, at Sens.

• Domestic Policies

  • The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979.

• Elizabeth I and English Patriotism

  • She was a better ally than the chief alternative, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had grown up in France and was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.

• Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette's Attempts to Escape

  • With the dauphin's governess, the Marquise de Tourzel, taking on the role of a Russian baroness, the queen pretending to be a governess, the king's sister, Madame Élisabeth, a nurse, the king a valet, and the royal children the alleged baroness' daughters, the royal family made their escape leaving the Tuileries around midnight.