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Madame Sophie
Sophie Beatrix of France, drafted by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
Born(1786-07-09)9 July 1786
Palace of Versailles, France
Died(1787-06-19)19 June 1787 (aged 11 months 10 days)
Palace of Versailles, France
BurialBasilica of St Denis, France
Names
Sophie Hélène Béatrix de France
HouseBourbon
FatherLouis XVI of France
MotherArchduchess Maria Antonia of Austria

Sophie Hélène Béatrix of France (9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787) was a French princess, the daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette. She was styled as Madame Sophie at birth. As the daughter of a King of France, she was a Fille de France.

Biography

Sophie was born at the Palace of Versailles, the youngest of the four children of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. She was named after her great-aunt Sophie of France, Madame Sophie, Louis XV's fifth daughter, who had died four years earlier.

Baptismal act of Sophie Hélène Beatrix Archives départementales des Yvelines

Sophie was born a very large baby, but her fragile health was undermined by tuberculosis. She died in Versailles after suffering five or six days of convulsions. 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, 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.

Sophie was buried in the necropolis of the Kings of France, the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis, five kilometers north of Paris.

The Royal Family of France, 1787 Queen Marie Antoinette with her children, 1787 at Versailles; (L-R); Marie Thérèse, known as Madame Royale at court; the Queen with the Duke of Normandy on her lap; the Dauphin 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 Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun; the Fleur-de-lis of France and the Bourbons can be seen behind on the cabinet

Ancestry

Ancestors of Sophie of France
16. Louis, Duke of Burgundy
8. Louis XV of France
17. Marie Adélaïde of Savoy
4. Louis, Dauphin of France
18. Stanisław I Leszczyński
9. Marie Leszczyńska
19. Katarzyna Opalińska
2. Louis XVI of France
20. Augustus II of Poland
10. Augustus III of Poland
21. Christiane Eberhardine of Bayreuth
5. Maria Josepha of Saxony
22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
11. Maria Josepha of Austria
23. Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick
1. Sophie of France
24. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
25. Eleanor of Austria
6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
26. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
13. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans
27. Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
3. Marie Antoinette of Austria
28. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
29. Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg
7. Maria Theresa of Austria
30. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick
31. Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen

References

  1. Lever, Evelyne, Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, Paris, 1991, p. 414, ISBN 2-213-02659-9,
  2. Fraser, Antonia, Marie Antoinette, The Journey, Anchor Books, USA, 2001, p. 257, ISBN 0-385-48949-8.
  3. Fraser, p. 4. Joseph Weber was the son of Marie-Antoinette's wet nurse, Constance Weber. His memoirs were published by Baudouin Frères, Imprimeurs-Libraires, in Paris, in 1822: https://archive.org/stream/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog_djvu.txt
  4. Fraser, p. 257.
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