Alcide de Beauchesne - Louis XVII, sa vie, son agonie, sa mort, captivité de la famille royale au Temple - 1867

Alcide de Beauchesne. Louis XVII, his life, his agony, his death, the captivity of the royal family at the Temple. Paris, Henri Plon, 1867, 613 pp., 532 pp.

2 volumes in-8 (235x160 mm), green half-binding, spine with raised bands ornamented, gilded edges (bindings of the period). Wear and rubbing on the covers. Sporadic foxing

Fourth edition enriched with autograph facsimiles (one tear on one of them), two frontispiece portraits and two plans depicting the Temple prison and the cemetery and the Sainte-Marguerite church - complete in two volumes

Alcide de Beauchesne traces the last years of Louis XVII, from the fall of the monarchy and the imprisonment of the royal family at the Temple to the young prince’s death in 1795.

He describes daily life in the prison, the detention of Louis XVI followed by that of Marie-Antoinette, of Madame Élisabeth and of the royal children, granting particular emphasis to the agony and death of Louis XVII.

The author notes having drawn on documents kept in the Archives and on testimonies from people who had access to the Temple prison