The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA by Cadbury Deborah

Author:Cadbury, Deborah [Cadbury, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2003-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

By late 1794, the mood in France was slowly beginning to change. In this slightly more open atmosphere, news of Louis-Charles’s shameful treatment in prison began to leak out. On November 26, 1794, journalists for the newspaper Le Courrier Universel dared to publish the following piece, which openly acknowledged some of the horror:

The son of Louis XVI should also benefit from the Revolution of the 9th Thermidor. It is well known that this child was abandoned to the care of Simon, the shoemaker, a favored acolyte of Robespierre whose punishment he shared. The Committee for General Security, being of the opinion that a human being ought not to be degraded below the level of humanity, just because he happens to be born the son of a king, has appointed three commissaries, men of sound judgment and intelligence, to replace the late Simon. Two are responsible for the education of the orphan. The third should ensure that he is not deprived of the necessities of life, as he was in the past.

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