formally foster children of the royal couple, simply lived at the queen's expense until her imprisonment, which proved fatal for at least Amilcar, as he was evicted from the boarding school when the fee was no longer paid, and reportedly starved to death on the street. Armand and Zoe had a position which was more similar to that of Ernestine; Armand lived at court with the king and queen until he left them at the outbreak of the Revolution because of his republican sympathies, and Zoe was chosen to be the playmate of the dauphin, just as Ernestine had once been selected as the playmate of Marie-Thérèse, and later sent away to her sisters in a convent boarding school before the Flight to Varennes in 1791. References Notes Bibliography Further reading External links Marie Antoinette's official Versailles profile on en.chateauversailles.fr The marais of Marie-Antoinette on parismarais.com Celebrating Marie-Antoinette blog article on waddesdon.org.uk Marie Antoinette: a childhood overshadowed by politics on habsburger.net 1755 births 1793 deaths 18th-century Austrian people 18th-century French people 18th-century German people 18th-century Austrian women 18th-century French women Austrian princesses Austrian people executed abroad Austrian Roman Catholics Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis Dauphines of France Dauphines of Viennois Executed Austrian women Executed French women Executed royalty French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution French people of Austrian descent French queens consort French Roman Catholics French socialites House of Habsburg-Lorraine Louis XVI Navarrese royal consorts People executed for treason against France Nobility from Vienna Princesses of France (Bourbon) Pupils of Metastasio Daughters of emperors Children of Maria Theresa Royal reburials Women who experienced pregnancy loss