For the European Heritage Days, come and discover the temporary exhibition «Le seul homme de la famille. The Duchess and the Duke of Angoulême” and participate in the guided tours of the monument and the exhibition. Thanks to exceptional loans from the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres and private collections, the exhibition makes it possible to rediscover and highlight for the first time this almost royal and yet unknown couple, formed by two characters with fates shaped by history.
Commented visit of the exhibition "The only man of the family" the Duchess and the Duke of Angoulême Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France, nicknamed «Madame Royale», is the first child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. She was the only one of her siblings to come out alive from the revolutionary period. Freed in 1795, she joined her uncle Louis XVIII in exile. In 1799, she married Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, son of the Count of Artois and last dauphin of France. The political role played by the Duchess of Angoulême during the Hundred Days, even though the king fled abroad, would have earned him the title of «the only man in the family» by Napoleon Bonaparte. The Duke of Angoulême knew his moment of glory in 1823 during the military expedition to Spain from which he emerged victorious