The Dauphin

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Stock #:266370
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Henry S. Wyer
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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This remarkable wax figure was brought from France by Capt. Jonathan Coffin of Nantucket in 1796. It was represented to him to be a portrait of the Dauphin, Louis Charles, infant son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The Dauphin's mysterious disappearance after the execution of the King and Queen is a matter of history

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