Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France
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| Sophie by Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (1786) | |
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| Marie Sophie Hélène Béatrice de France | |
| Father | Louis XVI of France |
| Mother | Marie Antoinette |
| Born | 9 July 1786 Palace of Versailles, France |
| Died | 19 June 1787 (age 345 days) Palace of Versailles, France |
Marie Sophie Hélène Béatrice de France, Fille de France, Madame Sophie (9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787) was a French princess, daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France.
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Biography [edit]
Sophie was born at the Palace of Versailles, the youngest of the four children of King Louis XVI of France and his Queen consort, Marie Antoinette. She was named after her great-aunt, Sophie de France, Louis XV's sixth daughter who had died five years earlier.
As the daughter of the king, Sophie was a Fille de France (Daughter of France), ranking third in importance after her mother the queen and her older sister Marie Thérèse, known as Madame Royale.
Sophie was born a very large baby: une très grosse fille[1] but her fragile health was undermined by tuberculosis. She died in Versailles after suffering five or six days of convulsions caused by the cutting of new teeth.[2] She was only eleven months old.
Her death was a cause for much sorrow on the part of her parents. When Marie Antoinette's foster-brother, Joseph Weber,[3] attempted to console her with the fact that given Sophie's tender age Marie Antoinette must not have grown overly attached to her, the bereaved mother said only, "Don't forget that she would have been my friend." This was a reference to her words after the birth of Sophie's older sister in 1778.[4]
She was buried at the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis north of Paris.
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References [edit]
- ^ Lever, Evelyne, Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, Paris, 1991, p. 414, ISBN 2-213-02659-9,
- ^ Fraser, Antonia, Marie Antoinette, The Journey, Anchor Books, USA, 2001, p. 257, ISBN 0-385-48949-8.
- ^ Fraser, p. 4. Joseph Weber was the son of Marie-Antoinette's wet nurse, Constance Weber. His memoirs were published by Baudouin Frères, Imprimeurs-Libraires, in Paris, in 1822: http://www.archive.org/stream/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog_djvu.txt
- ^ Fraser, p. 257.
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Titles, styles, honors and arms [edit]
Titles and styles [edit]
- 9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787 Her Royal Highness Princess Sophie of France (de facto Madame Sophie)
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