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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Sophie of France
| full name = {{lang-fr|Sophie Hélène Béatrice de France}}
| image = Sophie Beatrice of France.jpg
| caption = Sophie of France, portrait by ]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1786|7|9|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date|1787|6|19|df=y}} (aged 11 months 10 days)
| birth_place = ], France
| death_place = Palace of Versailles, France
| burial_place = ], France
| house = ]
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'''Sophie Helena Beatrice''' (]: ''Sophie Hélène Béatrice''; 9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787) was a French princess. She was the second daughter and last child of ] and ]. She was styled as ''Madame Sophie'' at birth. As the daughter of a ], she was a ] until her death in 1787.

==Biography==
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Sophie Helena Beatrice was born at the ], the youngest of the four children of ] and ]. She was named after her great-aunt, ], ]'s fifth daughter, who had died four years earlier.

Sophie was born a very large baby,<ref>Lever, Evelyne, ''Marie-Antoinette'', Fayard, Paris, 1991, p. 414, {{ISBN|2-213-02659-9}}.</ref> but her fragile health was undermined by ]. She died in the Palace of Versailles after suffering 5 or 6 days of convulsions.<ref>Fraser, Antonia, ''Marie Antoinette, The Journey'', Anchor Books, USA, 2001, p. 257, {{ISBN|0-385-48949-8}}.</ref> She was only 11 months old.
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Her death was a cause for much sorrow on the part of her parents. When Marie Antoinette's foster-brother, Joseph Weber,<ref>Fraser, p. 4. Joseph Weber was the son of Marie-Antoinette's ], Constance Weber. His memoirs were published by Baudouin Frères, Imprimeurs-Libraires, in Paris, in 1822: https://archive.org/stream/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog_djvu.txt</ref> 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 is supposed to have said, "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:<ref>Fraser, p. 257.</ref>

:''"Poor little one, you are not desired, but you will be nonetheless dear to me! A son would have belonged to the state—you will belong to me."''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thieme|first=Hugo Paul|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32727/32727-h/32727-h.htm|title=Women of Modern France|publisher=George Barrie & Sons|year=1908|volume=7|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}</ref>

Sophie was buried in the necropolis of the Kings of France, the ], {{convert|5|km|abbr=on}} north of ].

{{wide image|Marie Antoinette and her Children by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.jpg|300px|{{center|'''The Royal Family of France, 1787'''}} ] with her children, 1787 at Versailles; (L-R); ], known as ''Madame Royale'' at court; the Queen with ] on her lap; ] is on the right pointing into an empty cradle; the cradle used to show ''Madame Sophie''; she died later in the year and had to be painted out; by ]; the ] of France and the Bourbons can be seen behind on the cabinet.}}

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