Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France

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Sophie
Sophie Beatrice of France.jpg
Sophie by Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (1786)
Born (1786-07-09)9 July 1786
Palace of Versailles, France
Died 19 June 1787(1787-06-19) (aged 11 months 10 days)
Palace of Versailles, France
Full name
Marie Sophie Hélène Béatrice de France
House Bourbon
Father Louis XVI of France
Mother Marie Antoinette

Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France (9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787) was the daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France.

Biography

Sophie was born at the Palace of Versailles, the youngest of the four children of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. She was named after her great-aunt Sophie, Louis XV's sixth daughter who had died four years earlier.

Sophie was born a very large baby,[1] but her fragile health was undermined by tuberculosis. She died in Versailles after suffering five or six days of convulsions caused by the cutting of new teeth.[2] She was only eleven months old.

Her death was a cause for much sorrow on the part of her parents. When Marie Antoinette's foster-brother, Joseph Weber,[3] attempted to console her with the fact that given Sophie's tender age Marie Antoinette must not have grown overly attached to her, the bereaved mother said only, "Don't forget that she would have been my friend." This was a reference to her words after the birth of Sophie's older sister in 1778.[4]

She was buried at the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis north of Paris.

Ancestry

Family of Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Louis, Dauphin of France (1682–1712)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Louis XV of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Princess Marie Adélaïde of Savoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–65)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Stanislaus I Leszczyński of Poland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Marie Leszczyńska
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Catherine Opalińska
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Louis XVI of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Augustus II of Poland
Elector of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Augustus III of Poland
Elector of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Margravine Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Duchess Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrix de France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Archduchess Eleonor of Austria
Queen Dowager of Poland-Lithuania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis III Stephen, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Countess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte of Simmern
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria
(Marie Antoinette)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Countess Palatine Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Maria Theresa of Austria
Queen of Hungary & Bohemia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. Lever, Evelyne, Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, Paris, 1991, p. 414, ISBN 2-213-02659-9,
  2. Fraser, Antonia, Marie Antoinette, The Journey, Anchor Books, USA, 2001, p. 257, ISBN 0-385-48949-8.
  3. Fraser, p. 4. Joseph Weber was the son of Marie-Antoinette's wet nurse, Constance Weber. His memoirs were published by Baudouin Frères, Imprimeurs-Libraires, in Paris, in 1822: https://archive.org/stream/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog/mmoiresdeweberc03tolgoog_djvu.txt
  4. Fraser, p. 257.