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ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine See also:Marie Helene of See also:France] (1764—1794)  , commonly called MADAME See also:ELIZABETH, daughter of See also:Louis the Dauphin and See also:Marie See also:Josephine of See also:Saxony, and See also:sister of Louis XVI., was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the 3rd of May 1764 . See also:Left an See also:orphan at the See also:age of three, she was brought up by Madame de Mackau, and had a See also:residence at See also:Montreuil, where she gave many proofs of her benevolent See also:character . She refused all offers of See also:marriage so that she might remain by the See also:side of her See also:brother, whom she loved passionately . At the outset of the Revolution she foresaw the gravity of events, and refused to leave the See also:king, whom she accompanied in his See also:flight on the loth of See also:June 1792, and with whom she was arrested at Varennes . She was See also:present at the Legislative See also:Assembly when Louis was suspended, and was imprisoned in the See also:Temple with the royal See also:family . By the See also:execution of the king and the removal of Marie Antoinette to the Conciergerie, Madame Elizabeth was deprived of her companions in the Temple See also:prison, and on the 9th of May 1794 she was herself transferred to the Conciergerie, and haled before the revolutionary tribunal . Accused of assisting the king's flight, of supplying emigres with funds, and of encouraging the resistance of the royal troops on the loth of See also:August 1792, she was condemned to See also:death, and executed on the loth of May 1794 . Like her brother, she had all the domestic virtues, and, as was to be expected of a sister of Louis XVI., she was in favour of absolutist principles . Hers was one of the most touching tragedies of the Revolution; she perished because she was the sister of the king . The Memoires de Madame Elisabeth (See also:Paris, 1858), by F. de Barghon and Fort-Rion, are of doubtful authenticity; and the collection of letters and documents published in 1865 by F . See also:Feuillet de Conches must be used with caution (see the See also:bibliographical See also:note to the See also:article MA RIE'ANTOINETTE) . See le See also:Comte A .

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Ferrand, Eloge historigue de Madame Elisabeth (1814, containing 94 letters; 2nd ed., 1861, containing additional letters, but See also:correspondence mutilated) ; Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Etude sur Madame Elisabeth (Paris, 1864); A. de Beauchesne, See also:Vie de Madame Elisabeth (1869); La comtesse d'Armaille,, Madame Elisabeth (Paris, 1886) ; Madame d'Arvor, Madame Elisabeth (Paris, 1898) ; and Hon . Mrs See also:Maxwell-See also:Scott, Madame Elizabeth of See also:France (1908) .

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