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Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême

Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the elder son of Charles X and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He is identified by the Guinness World Records as the shortest-reigning monarch, reigning for less than 20 minutes during the July Revolution,[1] but this is not backed up by historical evidence.[2] He never reigned over the country, but after his father's death in 1836, he was the legitimist pretender as Louis XIX.

For other uses of "Louis, Dauphin", see Louis, Dauphin (disambiguation).

Louis XIX

6 November 1836 – 3 June 1844

(1775-08-06)6 August 1775
Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France

3 June 1844(1844-06-03) (aged 68)
Gorizia, Austrian Empire

Kostanjevica Monastery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
(m. 1799)

Louis XIX's signature

He was a petit-fils de France at birth, and was initially known as Louis Antoine d'Artois. After his father's accession to the throne, he became Dauphin de France, and his surname changed to de France, following the royal custom for princes with such rank.[3]

In fiction and film[edit]

The newborn Duke of Angoulême is portrayed by an uncredited child actor in a brief scene in the movie Marie Antoinette. This scene contains an error as it mistakenly names his parents as Louis XVIII and Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, who never had children.

List of shortest-reigning monarchs

Duc d'Angoulême's porcelain factory

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