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Louis XVIII of France
Biography

Louis Stanislas Xavier was born November 17, 1755 in Versailles, the son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and his wife, Princess Marie-Josephe of Saxony. It was the little son of the reigning king, Louis XV, and, as such, a son of Little France. Louis Stanislas was baptized Louis Stanislas Xavier six years after his birth, according to the tradition of the Bourbon family, being anonymous before his baptism. The name of Louis was issued because it is typical of a prince of France, Stanislas her great-grandfather King Leszczyski Stanisaw Poland, and Xavier Saint Francis Xavier. The family of his mother held Francis Xavier as one of their patron saints.

At the time of his birth, Louis Stanislas was fourth in line to the throne of France, after his father, the Dauphin (or Crown Prince), and his two older brothers, Louis Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy and Louis Auguste Duc de Berry.

The former member died after a terrible disease in 1761, leaving Louis Auguste as the heir to the next generation until the dolphin own untimely death in 1765. The two deaths raised to Louis Stanislas second in line of succession, while Louis-Auguste, has acquired the title of Dauphin.

Louis Stanislas found comfort in her governess, the Countess de Marsan, as he was his favorite of all the expenses of his (her brothers Louis Stanislas and sisters). Louis Stanislas was removed from his beloved housekeeper when he turned seven years of age generally accepted that the late childhood and early adolescence. The women could not govern a boy after attaining that age, if the role was then taken over by a man known as a governor, the Duke of Vauguyon, a friend of his father.

The Count of Provence and his brother Louis-Auguste, Duc de Berry, represented in 1757 by Franois Hubert Drouais.

Louis Stanislas was a smart boy, excelling in the classics and literature. His education was of the same quality and consistency than his elder brother, Louis-Auguste, despite the fact that Augustus was the heir to Louis and Louis Stanislas was not. Louis Stanislas education was entirely religious, many of her teachers are clergy. Vauguyon drilled into the young Louis Stanislas and his brothers how he thought princes "know how to remove, like work" and "how to reason properly.

In April 1771, Louis Stanislas education was formally concluded, and his own independent home has been created, which astonished his contemporaries with his extravagance: in 1773, the number of employees reached 390. In the same month his house was founded, Louis has been awarded several titles by his grandfather, Louis XV: Duke of Anjou, Count of Maine, Comte de Perche Count Senoch.

On May 14, 1771, Louis Stanislas married Princess Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy. Josphine Mary (as she was known in France) was the daughter of former Prince and Princess of Piedmont, the future King Vittorio Amedeo III of Sardinia.

A ball followed the luxury wedding, May 20 The new Countess of Provence (Louis was the Count of Provence as a courtesy) was considered ugly, boring and ignorant of the court at Versailles. Louis Stanislas was repulsed by his new wife, like his brother the Comte d'Artois, who had married his sister, Princess Marie-Therese de Savoie. The marriage remained unconsummated, biographers disagree on the reason now that this was due to the alleged inability Louis Stanislas (according to biographer Antonia Fraser) and his refusal to sleep with his wife because of his bad health personal. She never brushed his teeth, pulled his eyebrows, nor used perfume. At the time of his marriage, Louis Stanislas was obese and waddling instead of walking. He never exercised and continues to eat huge quantities of food.

Despite the fact that Louis.