Louis XVII Survived the Temple Prison: The DNA Proof

By Charles Louis de Bourbon

For over 220 years, my family and I have done everything in our power to let truth come out : the son of Louis XVI co-founder of the United-States, Louis XVII, didn’t die in the Temple prison, contrary to what all successive Governments, and Bourbon and Orleans ruling families, have been trying to make you believe, going as far as attempted murders on the person of Louis XVII, and poisoning or slaughtering people, doctors and nobles faithful to our cause, who were willing and able to act as witnesses in favor of the child’s survival and of his legal ties with the royal family. Even nowadays, still using insidious means, although with less brutality, some of our cousins keep pursuing their undermining job. In times and countries where monarchy still exists, we could see that they might have some interest in doing so. Aside for the multitude of proofs accumulated over the centuries, even though a number of documents have purposefully “disappeared”, progress in DNA research allows us beyond any doubt to prove that we are the great-grand-sons of Louis XVII. Everything is laid down in writing in this book. Just see it for yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles Louis de Bourbon
• Release date: Mar 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781773025469

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Charles Louis de Bourbon

LOUIS XVII

SURVIVED

THE TEMPLE PRISON

The DNA Proof

Dedicated to Louise, Michael and Edmond, in the hope I have lessened the burden on you. And to Arline with all my heart.

Emile Zola : J’accuse

Magna Carta of 1215 : Clause 40 To none we will sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

Chapter 1

LOUIS XVI, CO-FOUNDER OF AMERICA

Chapter 2

REVOLUTION

Chapter 3

EARLY MEMORIES

Chapter 4

THE TEMPLE JAIL

Chapter 5

ARRIVAL IN MONTREAL

Chapter 6

LIFE IN JAIL.

Chapter 7

ESCAPE

Chapter 8

SIMPSON’S

Chapter 9

DEATH IN THE TEMPLE

Chapter 10

THE FALSE DAUPHINS

Chapter 11

SAILING TO FLORIDA

Chapter 12

KARL WILHELM NAUNDORFF

Chapter 13

THE CROSSEN MEMOIRS

Chapter 14

RETURN TO PARIS

Chapter 15

THE VISIONS.

Chapter 16

EXILE AND DEATH

Chapter 17

THE STORY CONTINUES

Chapter 18

PROOF GALORE

Chapter 19

FINAL DNA RESULTS

Copyright

FOREWORD

This is the story of the longest persecution in history. For over 220 years my family has been tormented by the Government of France, and by members of my own family: the Bourbon-Parma’s and the Orleans families. We have suffered vicious persecution starting with the death sentences for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Louis XVI had been a decent king, issuing many new laws (including The Rights of Man) and cancelling many bad, old laws. He personally paid for and arranged for the saving of the American War of Independence. Still, he was attacked because the Revolution needed an excuse to kill him; he could not even appeal to his people, an appeal he would have certainly won.

His son, the eight-year-old Louis XVII, was imprisoned, not for any misdeeds but simply because he was the next king. An eight-year-old boy in jail for three years; can you believe it? He would have been murdered because the revolutionaries did not want to hand him over to the Vendee or the Spanish crown as agreed to in settlements. Thank heavens he escaped, and they killed a substitute whom no one recognized in his place. Neither his sister, Marie-Therese, or the servants from the previous royal household, who lived in the same prison, saw the dead boy.

Everyone knew of his escape, yet the new government allowed up to one hundred substitutes to run around and claim to be the lost King. The real Louis XVII was followed and prevented from claiming the throne when Louis XVIII was dying. He was jailed for not having proof of his birth and given a three-year term that was far in excess of the four month term he would have served had he been found guilty of passing false money. Even a few years ago, a book was written claiming he was a false money maker. This was settled over 200 years ago, but still there is no letup in the persecution. For the last time: LOUIS XVII WAS NOT FOUND GUILTY OF MAKING OR PASSING FALSE MONEY.

Louis XVII finally got our name back when the King of Holland received proof that Louis XVII was who he claimed to be. You would think we were finally freed of the shadow hanging over our family. But no, in France, no such acceptance. Our dear family there went to court asking that we be allowed to use our name; yes, we were allowed to do so, but we could not claim to be of the Royal family. Ever heard of such nonsense?

Persecution followed with court case after court case. Over 800 books were written about my family, some with support for our cause, but many filled with lies and falsehoods. Among the first was a two-part book on Louis XVII by A. de Beauchesne. When Beauchesne’s brother asked him why he wrote a story against Louis XVII, his answer, which is written in ancient script on my copy, was: I would have written it different if I would have been paid for a different story.

He is not the only one.

The final lie is just a few years old. An announcement was made that the Spanish Bourbons would do a DNA test on a heart taken from the body of the substitute boy who died in prison. Impossible! How could they test something everybody knew was not real? I knew that would end badly; it would kill all their stories.

So what happened?

A heart from the Habsbourg family was used instead, with the thought that the result must come out correct. After all, his mother—Marie-Antoinette—must have the same DNA because she was a Habsbourg. But it did not work as expected; only one marker was the same for both mother and son. It did match other Habsbourg members but not Louis XVII. The whole exercise is useless because they are trying to find a Bourbon connection not a Habsbourg. The DNA specialist stated he could not certify that the heart the Duke de Beauffremont, member of the Spanish court, gave him belonged to Louis XVII. He left that to the Director of the Cathedral of St. Denis and to the historian Philippe Delorme, who claimed it was the heart of Louis XVII received from the Dr. Pelletan.

However, it was the heart of the substitute boy.

The Government of France will not let us test the body that the heart belongs to because everybody knows it is not Louis XVII. Nevertheless, the heart was buried with great fanfare as the heart of Louis XVII. Not one media outlet questioned those results as they smiled on the way to the church. But how stupid to actually announce beforehand that this deception would work?

However DNA did do the trick. The latest research shows that my sole cousin in France has the same DNA as three members of the Bourbon-Parme’s and Orleans families. I thank them because they now cannot longer persecute us.

Many years ago, I decided to write a book about my great-great grandfather, because almost all of the material that existed was either in French, Dutch or German. I wanted my children to know the story. I decided later to bring the story up-to-date by adding some chapters on my own life, based on the advice of an American editor at a large publishing company. I have left out the hundreds of days that I happily spent with my family and at work. They were the best days of my life, but a bore to the reader. However, the main story remains as close as possible to how I lived it and, in some ways, was strangely similar to the life of my ancestor.

I am not a historian, and I may have a date or two wrong. I am also not unbiased, but I will gladly look at any proof against our claims. So far, I have not seen anything that has shaken my belief in the truth. I have done the best I could to give the straight story as I see it.

The last chapter has been written.

I am most grateful to all those who have helped me with this book. Firstly, my wife Arline who has stayed behind me, in front of me and beside me for sixty three years. My sister Amelie de Bourbon-Koning, her late husband Steven, and her sons Maarten and Peter have all had a hand in the revisions. My thanks also to family friends Tom and the late and very much regretted May Fitzpatrick and family, and Lorne and Isobel Emmerson. In France, Philippe and Claire Mac’Rel and my representative, the Baron Michel Castel D’Auzat and many others. In Spain, Cornelie Schoor and her husband Stephen, who unfortunately has left us. In Belgium, there are two families without whose support I would have long ago given up this project; they are the late Marquise Marthe de la Hamaide, and Dr. Rudy Meganck and his wife Lea de la Garde. In Italy Lorenza Crivellin. And most of all in Holland, our lawyer Dominique Rijnbout, who for the last ten years has worked so hard for us and who started the Foundation de Bourbon. I am leaving out many, many others, and I thank them as well.

Finally, I appeal to the French government to correct the error which now stands in French history for over 200 years. The Revolution killed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette for political reasons. Please, now let the young son live! There is no longer a need to keep pretending that he died June 8, 1795. They have always known that he did not die that day; they know the death certificate was false. My family belongs nowhere until you let us live in honor with our name. I carry it in honor, but you have never given me the courtesy of making it official. We will keep on fighting until we get your acceptance.

Charles Louis,

Cabarete, Dominican Republic, December to March 2014.

Hillier, Ontario July/October 2016.

Chapter 1

LOUIS XVI, CO-FOUNDER OF AMERICA

Louis XVI was born on August 23, 1754. He was named Louis August and his brothers were Louis Stanislas, comte de Provence (who later became Louis XVIII), and Charles Philippe, comte d’Artois (who became later Charles X). Their father, Louis, remained a Dauphin (Crown Prince) all his life and died almost ten years before his father Louis XV. Louis August, the grandson, became Dauphin on the death of his father in 1765.

On May 1, 1770 Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette by proxy and they finalized their marriage in Paris. The whole city and country celebrated along with Louis XVII, who had too much to eat and soon went off to bed. For a few years their marriage was not consummated, due to a problem with his apparatus, but they had a happy relationship and grew very fond of each other.

The death of Louis XV was a long, drawn-out agony that lasted ten days. In the 18th century smallpox in an older man was fatal and Louis XV knew it. He called for the Duchess of Berry, whom had been his companion for the last few years, and bid her farewell. When she left, the rest of the court knew the end was imminent. Louis XV made his peace with his God, confessed his sins, said his goodbyes, and died.

Louis XV was the sincerest king that France had ever known and a most loyal husband and father, one of the very few de Bourbons without a mistress. Of course, the King’s actions were often judged by the work of his ministers, and there was no doubt that Louis XVI was much better served by his foreign minister, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, than by all his other ministers. Louis XVI still has not received the full credit he deserves for many of the moves he made; in particular, his role in the American Revolution. His involvement began with his interest in the writings of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais and, like many young Frenchmen, he was fired up by their ideas.

Louis XVI took over a difficult government and he wanted change. But such change takes years—it is a slow process. The court he inherited was comprised of almost 1000 people; some nobles even had their own courts. His court included staff for the rooms, the gardens, the personal staff and the footmen. It was a huge household, almost a small town. It was the job of the nobles to run the armies, the soldiers, and the police. The Church was supposed to educate the people. But now that was all paid for by the government.

Benjamin Franklin, who strode around Paris in his cotton pants, his half-powdered wig, and his rustic jacket, was a living incarnation of the dreams of Rousseau. There was a rage to serve the new American nation and such enthusiasm fired the imaginations of many, including the King.

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We will try to follow the War of Independence through one of the best-known Frenchmen, the Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette was married on April 11, 1774, to Marie-Adrienne-Francoise de Noalles. He was seventeen and she fifteen. After the wedding, she lived with her mother while he went back to the army.

The King’s foreign minister, Vergennes, was hesitant. He wanted an agreement from the Spanish to back the French in their support of the Americans. But the Spanish did not care for this idea, which made Vergennes very nervous. On September 7th, 1777, Louis XVI made his decision without the advice of his ministers. He, by himself, would support the war and the negotiations between France and the United States.

In secret, Vergennes and the famous playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, who wrote the stories of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, arranged to set up a company to supply the Americans with guns and supplies; a sum of 1 million livres* started the ball rolling. On July 4, 1776, encouraged by the supplies from France, the Americans announced their Declaration of Independence and now they were seriously at war.

Already, many young Frenchmen had left for America to help with the fight. Among them was the famous Marquis de Lafayette. At eighteen years old, he was already a captain in the French army and in 1777 he bought the Regiment de Creguy for 80,000 livres. He fought alongside George Washington and when he was wounded in the leg Washington said, Take care of him as if he was my son.

In 1779 Lafayette became Maitre de Camp and in June of that year he went back to France to get more support and to visit his wife and family. He asked for 4,300 men and enough money to carry on. Louis XVI authorized the fifty-five-year-old Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, to take over the troops that were going to America. At one point, America had only about 5,000 men, and Rochambeau asked for 6,000 more men. A huge invasion army was then assembled with a hospital ship, guns, supplies, cannons, shovels, and picks. The army was getting ready to depart from many ports in France. Lafayette was already on the way; he had left on March 6th. On April 17 all was ready except for the weather. Total funds expended by this time reached 6.3 million livres. On May 2nd they were finally on the way.

On May 10th, Lafayette was back in America bringing with him another 100,000 livres. But America had no money and almost no ammunition and that amount would not last long. Nevertheless, George Washington embraced him and Lafayette was happy to be back where the action was. On July 10th, the French troops arrived in Newport, Rhode Island. They dug in and expected the English to attack, but nothing happened. They tried to get the sick back on their feet and finally, in September, decided to have a conference in Connecticut with the Americans.

On the way back, Lafayette and George Washington decided to visit Benedict Arnold, who was holding the area around West Point on the Hudson. Arnold had left, and when they caught an English spy, they discovered that Arnold had gone over to the other side and was planning to kidnap the two leaders. A narrow escape.

Again they sat and watched the world go by; winter was not a good time to start an attack. In March 1781, Lafayette was given a detachment of 2,400 men and ordered to bypass New York and go to Virginia and start something there. He was happy to be on the road again; stagnation was very bad for the troops. So they headed north to the head of the Delaware River, and then down the Chesapeake towards Virginia. The slugging was hard in small boats and through the mud. The traitor, Benedict Arnold, was in Virginia with the English troops under General Cornwallis. Money, money, money—it was the greatest problem. To keep the war going they went through large amounts of money, and Benjamin Franklin was back in France looking for more. The French government was trying to save money. They promised the navy, but the navy must first settle things in the Antilles and the date of their arrival was a great secret.

At the end of August 1781, everyone was assembled and ready to go. Lafayette held back for a few days, awaiting the arrival of Washington and Rochambeau. Then Admiral de Grasse arrived with the fleet and sailed up the Chesapeake.

On September 5, the English fleet was sighted and de Grasse, not wanting to get stuck inside the river but with anchors that were taking too long to haul up, cut his anchor loose and attached buoys instead. The wind and the current were against him, but he managed to make it out past Cape Charles and Cape Henri. The battle got underway at three p.m. and lasted until six-thirty, ending in a standoff. Both sides had damages, and the skirmishes continued for three days. The weather was wild, and there was little action, but on the 8th of September quite a bit of damage was done to the English fleet. On the 9th, Admiral Graves showed a flag to retreat, and they sailed back to New York; a victory for the French navy. Now the Americans could sail up and down the coast with their freight. Trade in those days was wholly dependent on water transportation; with no trains, planes or trucks all must come by water.

Having dug themselves in, the fleet was now ready to begin a bombardment of the English troops in Yorktown and Gloucester, and they were also surrounded with the American and French troops coming in from the land side, and the fleet was at their back. Cornwallis sent fire ships across the Chesapeake at the French fleet. The fire ships had hulls filled with firewood and were manned by only a few men who set fire to the ship as it neared their victims. After abandoning ship, the crew had to find their own way home and, if they made it, were well paid. De Grasse threatened to leave, but they sent Lafayette to talk him out of it.

Finally, the chiefs arrived and on the 29th of September, the troops began advancing. On October 2nd and 3rd, the British were under heavy fire but were well dug in. However, they were sitting ducks. By the 17th of October, the British were running low on ammunition and food and General Cornwallis wrote George Washington for terms of surrender. At the official surrender ceremony, Cornwallis claimed to be sick and instead sent General O’Hara in his place. During the surrender of the sword, O’Hara approached General Rochambeau, but was sent instead to George Washington, forcing O’Hara to surrender to the Americans. The British surrender was a huge win for Louis XVI as well, and to top it off, on October 22nd Marie Antoinette delivered a Dauphin. Joy all over; for Louis XVI it was the high point of his reign.

Chapter 2

REVOLUTION

In the meantime, Louis XVI had been busy getting things done. He allowed free trade in grains, wine ,and meat. He reformed the army and especially the navy, which became very strong during his reign. He abolished feudal rights, slavery, and torture. Several laws which were humiliating to the Jews were wiped from the books and a treaty with the United States was signed. Louis XVI’s government also established the rights of women and children to receive their own pensions without requiring authorization of their husbands or guardians. Finally, and not to be forgotten, he signed the bill that declared The Rights of Man. He was weak when the revolution started and should have resisted, but he believed in the goodness of men and could not understand how others could act so strongly.

His son, Louis Charles, later Louis XVII, was born in Versailles on March 27th, 1785. His mother was Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria. He was their third child following his sister, Marie-Therese, and his brother, Louis Joseph Xavier Francois, the Dauphin. His godfather was his father’s brother, Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence, and his godmother, his Aunt Marie Charlotte Louise de Lorraine, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of the two Sicily’s.

Unfortunately, Louis XVI could not have picked a worse godfather. Instead of looking out for the boy’s wellbeing once the King died, the Count of Provence did his utmost to harm him and, in the end, he even denied him his name. Once Louis XVII was officially dead, the Count became Louis XVIII.

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Tensions between the count and his brother the King began earlier at the baptism of Louis XVI’s first child, Marie-Therese, the future Duchess of Angouleme, where the Count of Provence was named the godfather. In the middle of the ceremony, he asked the officiating priest, Aren’t you going to ask whom the parents are?

This cynical remark was aimed at Louis XVI, who was in a barren marriage for seven years. A malfunction of his reproductive organs was to blame, but was later corrected by a small operation. Still, the Count of Provence resented very much that he was not the king and would soon not even be the Dauphin.

The Count of Provence had written to his friend in England, the Duke of Fitz-James, asserting that, of the three Royal brothers, he was the right choice to reign. He maintained that he was going to get the evidence to prove that his brother’s children were not his and therefore, Louis XVI was not fit to reign. He became indignant when Marie-Antoinette presented Louis XVI with the first son, a new Dauphin. As a Dauphin, the Count of Provence had for ten years occupied the Dauphin’s quarters, which he now had to vacate upon losing the title to the new prince.

The Count of Provence, who later became Louis XVIII, was a member of the Freemasons, a secret society started in 1717, whose ideals were the same as the French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire. They dreamed of a Utopia with every person having individual rights. They were against religion and the monarchy and moved against its organized forms. One of the earliest and most influential Freemasons was the Duke of Choiseul, who disbanded the Jesuits and let parliament ignore the bills issued by the Popes. Both Pope Clemens XII and Pope Benedictus XIV condemned the secret society of the Masons.

The Masons held their first international conference in 1771. A second conference followed in 1781. Then, at the conference in Frankfurt in 1784, it was decided to eliminate the Kings of Sweden and of France. The King of Sweden was later assassinated and Louis XVI was beheaded.

Nearly all the ministers of Louis XVI were Freemasons and, inevitably, they steered the government and the people towards the destruction of the monarchy and of the country. Although they used Louis XVIII, in the end it was he who succeeded to the throne.

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When Louis Charles was born, his father appointed a staff of forty people to care for him, all serving under the Duchess of Polignac, who was the governess of the royal children. The Duchess of Tourzel later replaced Polignac. The staff also included a sub-governess and three chambermaids, one of whom was Madame Rambaud, the personal governess of the young prince. There were also several teachers, cooks, butlers and footmen. The child was strong, cheerful and friendly. He called his serious older sister Madame and his mother Mama Queen and she called him her Choux d’Amour, her love cabbage. The boy loved to work in his own little garden every day, and he always brought back a flower for his mother.

The family was actually quite different from what has been portrayed in some history books. The father was courageous and steadfast, attentive and conscientious. He was very religious and had the best of intentions. He lost his power gradually, as the bold revolutionaries continued making new demands. Now they had the initiative and soon they had the power. Sadly, the King had the right ideas and his opponents had no idea where they were heading. They talked of equality and liberty, but their policies were not working.

Meanwhile in Paris, the political clubs had become very active. Some met once a week, some three times per week; discussions were held on how to run the government. They argued all night long, and soon the clubs began to resemble political parties. They published their own pamphlets stating their policies, and often listened to paid agitators and foreign spies, who urged them on. Little by little, as the talk grew stronger and more aggressive, their actions became more vehement. The conservatives, frightened by what was occurring, locked themselves in their homes. No one had the courage to stop what was happening.

In the centre of the city stood the Royal Palace, which belonged to the Orleans family, a junior branch of the de Bourbon family, and at the centre of the worst abuses. Prostitution flourished inside the palace, and everyone had a mistress. Daily pamphlets were printed attacking the King, the Queen, and the Roman Catholic Church. Paid informers and agitators made up half of the palace courtiers.

The Duke of Orleans was a descendant of the brother of Louis XIV, and one of the worst intriguers of his time. When he was eighteen years old