A glove said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette's son

A glove said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette's son. It was sold at auction in France this year. The lot description stated that, according to its source, it was found in the queen's cell in the Conciergerie after her death, together with her last letter.

The glove was handed to the Duchesse de Tourzel as a keepsake of her former young charge.

Fiction has repeatedly played upon the episode of the yellow glove belonging to little Louis, which Marie Antoinette hid behind her wretched prison bed in order to kiss it and weep over it in the hours of her solitude.

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A glove said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette's son

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