of abdication on 2 August 1830. It is said that Louis Antoine spent the next 20 minutes listening to the entreaties of his wife not to sign a similar document, while the former Charles X sat weeping. However, he also abdicated, in favour of his nephew the duke of Bordeaux. For the final time he left for exile, where he was known as the "Count of Marnes". He never returned to France. Louis Antoine and his wife travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, in November 1830 and took up residence in a house at 21 (now 22) Regent Terrace near Holyrood Palace where Charles X was staying. Emperor Francis I of Austria offered the Prague Castle in Prague to the royal entourage in 1832, so Louis-Antoine and Charles X moved there. Francis I, however, died in 1835, and his successor Ferdinand I of Austria told the French royal family that he needed the palace for his coronation in the summer of 1836. The exiled French kings and their entourage therefore left and eventually arrived at the palace of Grafenberg in Görz, Austria (now Gorizia, Italy) on 21 October 1836. Many legitimists did not recognize the abdications as valid, and recognized Charles X as king until his death in 1836, with Louis XIX succeeding him. Louis Antoine died in Görz in 1844, aged 68. He was buried in his father Charles X's crypt in the church of the Franciscan monastery of Kostanjevica in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Upon his death, his nephew the Duke of Bordeaux became head of the royal family of France under the regnal name Henry V, although he used the title of Count of Chambord in exile. In fiction and film The newborn Duke of Angoulême is portrayed by an uncredited child actor in a brief scene in the movie Marie Antoinette. This scene contains an error as it mistakenly names his parents as Louis XVIII and Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, who never had children. See also List of shortest-reigning monarchs Duc d'Angoulême's porcelain factory Footnotes External link |- |- |- 1775 births 1844 deaths 19th-century monarchs of France People from Versailles Legitimist pretenders to the French throne Dukes of Angoulême Princes of France (Bourbon) Burials at Kostanjevica Monastery Dauphins of France French generals French counter-revolutionaries Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur Grand Crosses of the Military Order of Maria Theresa