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OK for those of you who don't know, Marie-Therese Charlotte, Madame Royale and Duchesse d'Anglouleme, was the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She spend three years imprisoned in the Tower, during which her father, mother and aunt were executed and her brother died. She was released to Austria in 1795, she later married her cousin Louis-Antoine Duc d'Angouleme and triumphantly returned from exile with her surviving family in 1814. Sadly, she was forced back into exile in August 1830 by the July revolution, dieing in Austria in 1851. She and her husband had no children.

This is the basic summery of her life. However, there is a little known fact about her not mention in any sources. In 1813, the Duchesse was pregnant, sadly she miscarried, and never conceived again. So what if she hadn't miscarried and had carried her child to term, and what if this child was a son? How would this affect history? Her son would be 17 at the time of the July revolution, so would he succeed to the throne instead of Louis-Philippe? What would a continued Bourbon dynasty look like? Would France be a more stable nation in the 19th century?
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