WI: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, duchesse d’Angoulême had given birth to a live son in 1813?

As she turned thirty-four, on December 19th, 1812, Marie Therese seemed overflowing with happiness. On January 27th, 1813, Princess Charlotte gave a ball and noticed that d’Angouleme too was in high spirits. In a letter dated February 7 to her friend, Miss Mercer Elphinstone, the English Princess made a special note that at her grand fete, d’Angouleme proved to be a wonderful dance partner. Marie Therese’s doctor, Monsieur Lefebvre, knew the reason for the couple’s ebullience, as he would explain to Hue that January: “At this moment, I am tending to a woman who lives above me and is pregnant for the first time after more than thirteen years of marriage.”

On January 30, Hue wrote to his wife that Dr Lefebvre had given him the miraculous news that the Duc D’Angouleme would be a father in June. The doctor confirmed this in his own handwriting on the same letter. Madame Hue received the note and added a formal sentence on the paper: ‘Monsieur Hue and Monsieur Lefebvre designate Madame the Duchesse D’Angouleme, announcing her pregnancy’. On February 15, 1813, Louise de Conde wrote to her father that she was stunned to hear of the pregnancy as she had heard for years that, while Marie-Therese had been in the Temple Prison, The Jacobian guards had bragged about destroying her fertility with a combination of drugs. Marie-Therese’s joy was to be short lived. Quite a few months into the pregnancy, she suffered a miscarriage and that summer left for Bath to recuperate.


Marie Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter - Susan Nagel

Basically, what if the duchesse d'Angouleme had given birth to a son, most likely named some variation of Louis-???? (maybe Louis-Auguste for her father, or Louis-Charles/Louis-Joseph for one of her brothers)? Do she and hr husband give up the throne OTL, and if not does it automatically go to their son instead?
 
Basically, what if the duchesse d'Angouleme had given birth to a son, most likely named some variation of Louis-???? (maybe Louis-Auguste for her father, or Louis-Charles/Louis-Joseph for one of her brothers)? Do she and hr husband give up the throne OTL, and if not does it automatically go to their son instead?

Hmm if they have a son I don't think they'd give it up as willingly as they did otl. Perhaps we might see them reigning as Louis XIX etc? Weren't there a lot who wanted them to reign?
 
Hmm if they have a son I don't think they'd give it up as willingly as they did otl. Perhaps we might see them reigning as Louis XIX etc? Weren't there a lot who wanted them to reign?

I know that Marie-Thérèse remained popular throughout her lifetime in France, but that goodwill was also matched by the criticisms of her highly conservative stances in terms of government. She was more respected for her actions as a young woman, but as an older adult she seems to have been more tolerated and given leeway as the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette than fully respected. She had spine, but in that respect was also highly inflexible. I could see a Marie-Thérèse/Duc d'Angouleme reign being quite unpopular after a while.
 
I know that Marie-Thérèse remained popular throughout her lifetime in France, but that goodwill was also matched by the criticisms of her highly conservative stances in terms of government. She was more respected for her actions as a young woman, but as an older adult she seems to have been more tolerated and given leeway as the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette than fully respected. She had spine, but in that respect was also highly inflexible. I could see a Marie-Thérèse/Duc d'Angouleme reign being quite unpopular after a while.
Hmm indeed no doubt some of the oaths in Paris would need a reminder of the chaos of the firdt republic
 
Marie-Thérèse's acts in 1814, glorified by royalist propaganda, made her quite hated in the republican and bonapartist circles. Devoutly reactionary, her regency would probably go up Charles X's road with the same consequences. Few soldiers were ready to shed their blood for Madame Royale in 1814, fewer still for the Duke of Bordeaux in 1830, no reason why Marie-Thérèse's acts could further the popularity of the ultra regime in the army and the general population.
 
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