Charles Emmanuel Joseph de France

Charles Emmanuel, Dauphin de France (Full Name: Charles Emmanuel Joseph Xavier de France; 28th May 1732 – Present) is a French royal prince of the House of Anjou and the heir apparent to the Kingdom of France. He is the second-eldest son of Louis XII, Roi de France and Navarre, and his second wife, suo jure Duchesse de Lorraine et Bar and Reine-Consort de France, Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine. Born into the House of Anjou as the consecutive twin to his elder brother, Philippe Louis de France, he was given the courtesy title Duc de Bourgogne respectively. However, after the tragic death of his brother five years following the birth of both siblings in the winter of 1738, the young prince thus received the title as Dauphin de France, or strictly referred to as Dauphin de Viennois, and—from his mother’s inheritance to the throne of Lorraine—Prince Héréditaire de Lorraine. Formally, he is styled with the traditional form of address as Monseigneur le Dauphin.

Upon his rather sudden upheaval as heir apparent to a prominent realm of Western Europe, he saw himself immediately—and without hesitancy—brought under the attentive care of his father at the Château de Versailles; a court he would promptly observed to be filled with ostentatious pleasure, political strife, and scandalous intrigues. Contrary to Charles' early upbringing, the young prince was furnished and carefully groomed for his future role as sovereign. He received a rigorous program and was educated by scholars selected personally by his father; one field of study he had developed a great interest was in the arts of military warfare, even at a young age. Politically, during his adolescence, the Dauphin soon found himself aligned with many liberal members of the court, to the dismay of his conservative-minded father, and was saw by the people as the new bearer of hope upon his own ascension to the kingdom.

Birth and Baptism
Charles Emmanuel de France was born on 28th May 1732 Château de Villetaneuse. He was the second male child to the young King of France, Louis XII Charles de France, and the Lorrainian princess, Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, Reine-Consort de France. Previous to the birth, his mother had departed from court by the request of court physicians and the king to Villetaneuse, a royal hunting lodge, two weeks in advance. During the birth, the queen was bestowed with the miracle of conceiving a set of twins, and Charles was born aside with an older brother in the early morning hours of the summer season. He succeeded him with ease after a prolonged period of excruciating accouchement the Reine-Consort faced for his brother. Both infants, although feeble during the first minutes following the birth, were soon breathing and deemed physically healthy by the queen's wet nurses. The Duchesse de Rohan, who had accompanied his mother during her accommodation at the château, was entrusted as the caretaker of both children until they arrived at court. Upon receiving the infants, she remarked on how Charles’ elder brother was the only one who wept while he was already fast asleep, saying: "“It is to be seen that God had drafted over two disparate sons of France; one whose effervescent temperament had shined through its soft petals, possessing the soul with a great spirit—awhile the other held a deep passivity that pleasurably series the tiring minds of all.'"A set of healthy male twins has been seemed as a wondrous gift that was much rejoiced by Charles’ mother, in whom her position at court was stifled from two poor receptions of previous birth, having born two daughters. Therefore so, both his mother and father’s position were secured with an heir and a spare to the French throne. On the paternal side, the newly born was the grandson of the late king, Philippe XII de France, and the great-great-grandson of the renowned Charles XII Dieudonné. Through his great-grandfather, Charles XIII Auguste, he can trace ancestry to the House of Stuart through Henrietta Anna Stuart, Princess of England and youngest daughter of King Charles I of England and his consort Henriette-Marie de France. On the maternal side, his grandparents were the late Léopold I, Duc de Lorraine, and Élisabeth-Marguerite d’Anjou de Valois, the first cousin once removed to his father and member of the cadet branch of the House of Anjou. Born as the legitimate son of the sovereign, he was styled as the honorific status of Fils de France.

After the trial and tribulations of the whole ordeal, the Reine-Consort disembarked back to Versailles—after a week of stay—on June 4th, where she would directly present both children to the court and the King himself. Upon their arrival, the King, who was filled with relief for two healthy male children, immediately sought to personally hold his sons. Charles was conferred in appanage to the ducal lands of the Burgundy and was given the name Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne by his father, while his elder brother was honored with a more senior title of Dauphin de France.

Titles and Styles

 * 28th May 1732 – 12th December 1738: Son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne
 * 12th December 1738 – Present: Son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur le Dauphin de France
 * 12th December 1738 – Present: Son Altesse Royale, Prince Héréditaire de Lorraine et Bar

Honors

 * Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Toison d’Or (Spain)
 * Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint-Michael
 * Chevalier de l’Ordre du Saint-Esprit
 * Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis