Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202207:00 a.m., July 28, 2022
Discover the continuation of the story of Marie-Thérèse of France, the only royal child to have survived the French Revolution.
His brother Louis XVII dead, nothing now prevents the Convention from releasing the unfortunate Marie-Thérèse.
To ease his fate, Madame de Chanterenne was appointed to keep him company.
It is she who will inform him of the death of his father, his mother Marie-Antoinette and his brother Louis-Charles, but also who will give him a semblance of normal life from 1795. In this second part episode produced by Europe 1 Studio, Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach tells how the daily life of Marie-Thérèse of France, known as "Madame Royale", is improving as she approaches her 17th birthday.
In this new episode of the "At the heart of History" podcast, Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach continues her story of the life of Marie-Thérèse of France, nicknamed "Madame Royale", the last child of Louis XVI alive after the French Revolution.
When the Terror ends with the death of Robespierre, the fate of the prisoners becomes more flexible.
But what to do with the last child of Louis XVI?
Should we keep her in prison for life, so that she ends her life like her brother Louis-Charles?
Or has the time come to set him free, now that the monarchy is abolished?
Symbol of a bygone era, Marie-Thérèse becomes a kind of curiosity: she is the only survivor of a disappeared "species".
And as such,
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Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
Production: Europe 1 Studio
Directed by: Clement Ibrahim
Broadcaster: Eloise Bertil
Graphics: Sidonie Mangin