The farewell between the sisters was described as intense, with Elisabeth hardly able to tear herself from the arms of Clothilde; Queen Marie Antoinette commented: "My sister Elisabeth is a charming child, who has intelligence, character, and much grace; she showed the greatest feeling, and much above her age, at the departure of her sister. Clotilde's cult made her the patron of queens, widows, brides and those in exile. She was the younger sister of Louis XVI of France. For other uses, see On 8 August, the ambassador of Sardinia, count de Viry, presented the official proposal to Clothilde from Charles Emmanuel, and on the 16th, the official engagement was announced to the royal court.Clothilde departed from Versailles on 27 August and separated from the king, queen and her sister in Choisy, before continuing with her brother the Count of Provence. Baptied as Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière, she was born at Versailles and known as Madame Clotilde. Her relics survived the French Revolution, and are housed in the … Charles Emmanuel was so moved by her death that he abdicated on 4 June 1802 in favour of his younger brother, Only includes Princesses of the House of Bourbon before the On the surname of the children of the King of France and of members of the French royal family: Diderot & d'Alembert Woodacre, Elena: Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (2013)Woodacre, Elena: Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (2013)Woodacre, Elena: Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (2013)Woodacre, Elena: Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (2013)

I own to my dear mamma that I fear I am getting too attached to her, feeling, from the example of my aunts, how essential it is for her happiness not to remain an old maid in this country. In Normandy especially she was venerated as the patroness of the lame, those who came to a violent death and women who suffered from ill-tempered husbands. She occupied herself with the building of churches and monasteries, preferring to distance herself from the power struggles of the court.Clotilde died in 545 at the tomb of St. Martin of Tours, of natural causes; she was buried at her husband's side, in the Church of the Holy Apostles (now the Clotilde's cult made her the patron of queens, widows, brides and those in exile. Clotilde de France est ondoyée le 23 septembre 1759, jour de sa naissance, par Monseigneur Nicolas de Bouillé, doyen des comtes de Lyon, évêque d'Autun, premier aumônier du roi. From the sixth century on, the marriage of Clovis and Clotilda was made the theme of epic narratives, in which the original facts were materially altered and the various versions found their way into the works of different Frankish chroniclers.After the death of Chilperic, her mother seems to have made her home with Godegisil at Geneva, where her other daughter, Chrona, founded the church of Saint-Victor. Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière de France, dite Madame Clotilde, née à Versailles le 23 septembre 1759 et morte le 7 mars 1802, fille du dauphin Louis et de Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, et petite-fille de Louis XV, sœur des rois de France Louis XVI, Louis XVIII et Charles X, fut reine de Sardaigne de 1796 à sa mort. She played the guitar to his singing, they studied religious texts together, and enjoyed spending time at the Moncalieri and La Venaria to relax from the court etiquette.In the 1790s, Clothilde was described by the exiled In 1796, upon the accession of her husband to the throne, Clotilde became the During their reign in exile from mainland Sardinia, the couple traveled between the Italian states as well as their own provinces and upheld diplomatic relations with the hope of being restored to Turin. Because she was overweight, Marie Clotilde was nicknamed Gros-Madame. In art she is often depicted presiding over the baptism of Clovis, or as a suppliant at the shrine of This article is about the saint. There, she was separated from her French entourage and ceremoniously transferred by count de Clermont-Tonnerre to count de Viry and her new Italian household, notably her new lady-in-waiting Madama Theresa Balbi, who was to become her favourite until her death.Accompanied by her brother the Count of Provence and her husband, she was introduced to her father-in-law at Les Echelles and to her mother-in-law and the rest of the Sardinian court at Clotilde established a good relationship to her new family and became popular with the public. Her father-in-law came to refer to her as an angel of peace because of her frequent mediating between quarreling family members, particularly between him and her spouse.Although the union was arranged for political reasons, Clotilde and Charles Emmanuel became devoted to each other, united in their piety and a strong belief in the Catholic faith.