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Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulme was the eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He was technically King of France for a matter of minutes before he himself abdicated, due to his fathers abdication during the July Revolution in 1830. He never reigned over the country, but after his fathers death in 1836 he was the legitimist pretender as Louis XIX.

Louis Antoine was born at Versailles, as the eldest son of Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, the youngest brother of King Louis XVI of France. He was born one year after the death of his greatgrandfather Louis XV of France. His mother was Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy , the daughter of Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain.

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