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| name = Madame Sophie
| full name = Sophie Hélène Béatrix de France
| image = Sophie Beatrice of France1.jpg
| caption = Sophie Beatrix of France, drafted 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 = ], ]
| death_place = Palace of Versailles, France
| burial_place = ], France
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'''Sophie Hélène Béatrix of France''' (9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787) was a French princess, the daughter of ] and ]. She was styled as ''Madame Sophie'' at birth. As the daughter of a ], she was a ].

==Biography==

Sophie 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.

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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 Versailles after suffering five or six 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 eleven months old.

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>

Sophie was buried in the necropolis of the Kings of France, the ], five kilometers 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 the ] on her lap; the ] 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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==References==
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