LOUIS XVII, A STORY THAT HAS NO END

HE WAS BULLIED, BEATEN, THEN KEPT IN A ROOM THAT WAS NEVER CLEANED AND ALMOST WITHOUT LIGHT, COMPLETELY ALONE 

He died when he was 10.

  Dauphin Louis-Charles of France by Alexandre Kucharsky, 1792, zoom

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Royalists were thought to have spirited him away, and that the buried body was that of another child. Louis XVIII rewarded a man who showed proof of his death with this theater:

Yet innumerable adventurers claimed to be the Dauphin. They inspire the figure of the county-fair quack in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." 

(Written in 1883)

A DNA test of 1993 should have ended the myth,

but a man told me that he was his descendant

and that in Belgium he was called "Monseigneur."*

When I asked why he did not prove his claim by DNA,

he said it would cause too great an upheaval.

* "My lord" 

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