Image: Oil on canvas by Alexander Kucharsky 1792
The video on the next page contains excerpts from the film "The last 76 days of Queen Marie-Antoinette" from arteTV.
Duration: 4:15 minutes
Marie-Antoinette's clock
The clock was built in 1785 for the birth of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Normandy. On the left is the coat of arms of the mother Marie Antoinette (Habsburg and Lorraine), on the right the coat of arms of the father, the French king Louis XVI. Louis Charles became heir to the throne (Dauphin de Viennois) through the death of his older brother in 1789. The monarchists listed him as Louis XVII, although he was never crowned king. After the death of his father Louis XVI in January 1793 and his mother Marie Antoinette in October 1793, he joined the shoemaker Anton Simon, a Jacobin who was supposed to raise him to be a good citizen. After Simon was also executed, the child lived alone in Temple Prison and died in 1795 at the age of 10. Twenty years later, Louis XVIII was crowned king, a brother of Louis XVI.
