tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post5637889131674092340..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Louis the Dauphin (1729-1765)elena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-83090382354141376912008-05-07T21:53:00.000-04:002008-05-07T21:53:00.000-04:00Yes, they were. Thanks, Jack, for reminding us of ...Yes, they were. Thanks, Jack, for reminding us of those other heirs who died young.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-87430921667195013032008-05-07T21:43:00.000-04:002008-05-07T21:43:00.000-04:00Even back further two generations, what would Fran...Even back further two generations, what would France been like had Louis XV's father - the Dauphin/Duke of Burgundy (eldest grandson of Louis XIV), who was also extremely devout, a disciple of Fenelon and who WAS being prepared in the ways of statemanship by his grandfather had lived? <BR/>And what if HIS eldest son had lived (Louis XV's older brother). Both the Dauphin, his wife and his eldest son died within weeks of the pox, leaving the 5(?) year old Duke of Normandy as the heir to his aging great-grandfather, eventually to be raised by the ambitious Regent Duke of Orleans (ancestor of Egalite and Louis Phillipe) to be nothing but a wastrel? The French Bourbons of the 1700s were very unlucky in their premature deaths.Jack B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10535561070313996833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-26802495134704974002008-05-07T11:31:00.000-04:002008-05-07T11:31:00.000-04:00I read your article on the Dauphin and wondered ho...I read your article on the Dauphin and wondered how differently France's history would have been if he had lived a long life. How very sad for France and the thousands and thousands of lives that would be snuffed out after the fall of the Bastille.There is the possibilty that events still would have happened in 1789 but I will always wonder what if? Poor France! The rivers of blood that would flow in the name of "freedom"!lara77https://www.blogger.com/profile/12595738597369639417noreply@blogger.com