Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême

French prince (1775–1844)

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Lived 1775–1844, aged 69France

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1775–1844
Aged 69
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Summary

Updated 2026-06-08

He held the French throne for twenty minutes — maybe. Louis Antoine became dauphin when his father took the crown, abdicated the same day his father did in 1830, and in certain legitimist reckonings earned the designation Louis XIX for a reign too brief to measure.

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Born Louis Antoine d'Artois on 6 August 1775, he was a petit-fils de France, grandson to a king but far from the throne in a France still a decade from revolution. When his father became Charles X in 1824, Louis Antoine rose to dauphin and changed his surname to de France per royal custom. He carried that title for six years. In 1830 his father abdicated, and Louis Antoine followed suit within hours — some say within minutes — never practically reigning but earning a ghostly place in the legitimist line as a king who technically was.

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