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1682-1712. Biography. The "Petit Dauphin", eldest son of Louis, le Grand Dauphin and grandson of Louis XIV. Married Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy (7 December 1697), who bore him the future Louis XV (q.v.). Briefly succeeded his father as Dauphin in 1711-12, but died before Louis XIV did, and never reigned. The Department of Prints and Drawings ...
Coffret de mariage commandé par Louis XIV pour le Grand Dauphin | Museum number 1882,0211.209 |
Louis, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711), commonly known as le Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the Petit Dauphin.
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Louis was born on 1 November 1661 at the Château de Fontainebleau, the eldest son of Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Austria (who were double first-cousins to each other). As a Fils de France ("Son of France") he was entitled to the style of Royal Highness. He was baptised on 24 March 1662 at the chapel of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-L...
Although he was permitted at first to attend and later to participate in the Conseil d'en haut, Louis did not play an important part in French politics. Nonetheless, as the heir to the throne, he was constantly surrounded by cabals battling for future prominence. Apart from the minor political role that he played during his father's reign, Louis en...
The Delphin Classics were a large edition of the Latin classics, edited in the 1670s for Louis (Delphin is the adjective derived from dauphin) and known for being written (unlike some other treatme...
Louis married Duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria on 7 March 1680. She was known in France as Dauphine Marie Anne Victoire. Although the marriage was not a close one, the couple had three sons. The Dauphine died in 1690 and in 1695 Louis secretly married his lover Marie Émilie de Joly de Choin. His new wife did not acquire the status of Dauphine of Franc...
Louis's paternal grandparents were Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria; he was descended, on his mother's side, from Philip IV of Spain and Élisabeth of France. Louis XIII and Élisabeth de Bourbon were siblings (the children of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici), as were Anne of Austria and Philip IV, who were the children of Philip III ...
Tricoire, Damien. "Attacking the Monarchy’s Sacrality in Late Seventeenth-Century France: The Underground Literature against Louis XIV, Jansenism and the Dauphin’s Court Faction." French History31....Wolf, John B. Louis XIV(NY: 1968).The Grand Dauphin split his time between Versailles and his own château in Meudon, whose sumptuous decor rivalled that of his father’s great palace. An avid collector, he bought numerous Gobelins tapestries, paintings by Poussin , and rare items of furniture.
Title: Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin (1661–1711) Date: late 17th century. Culture: French. Medium: White marble. Dimensions: 18 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (47 × 40 cm) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906. Accession Number: 07.225.198b.
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Louis of France, the Grand Dauphin. 1700 - 1750. Oil on canvas. Room 079B. The eldest son of Louis XIV and the Spanish Infanta María Teresa of Austria, Louis was born in 1661, receiving the title of Dauphin as heir to the French throne.
