Editing Louis XVII (section)

====1793: In the care of Antoine Simon====
[[File:Louis XVI au Temple, Musée de la Révolution française - Vizille.jpg|thumb|''Louis XVI taking care of the education of his son in the [[Temple (Paris)|Temple]]'', ([[Musée de la Révolution française]])]]
Immediately following Louis XVI's execution, plots were hatched for the escape of the prisoners from the [[Temple, Paris|Temple]], the chief of these plots were engineered by the {{ill|François Augustin Regnier de Jarjayes|lt=Chevalier de Jarjayes|fr}}, the [[Jean, Baron de Batz|Baron de Batz]], and [[Charlotte Atkyns|Lady Atkyns]]. Others said to be involved in his escape(s) are [[Paul Barras]] and [[Joséphine de Beauharnais]].<ref name="son-of-louis-xvi">{{cite book |last1=Bloy |first1=Léon |title=The Son of Louis XVI |url=https://sunnyloupublishing.com |date=2022 |publisher=Sunny Lou Publishing}}</ref>

On 3 July, Louis-Charles was separated from his mother and put in the care of [[Antoine Simon]], a [[Shoemaking|cobbler]] who had been named his guardian by the [[Committee of Public Safety]]. The tales told by royalist writers of the cruelty inflicted by Simon and his wife on the child have not been proved. Louis Charles' sister, [[Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême|Marie Thérèse]], wrote in her memoires about the "monster Simon", as did Alcide Beauchesne. Antoine Simon's wife Marie-Jeanne, in fact, took great care of the child's person.{{cn|date=February 2024}} Stories survive narrating how he was encouraged to eat and drink to excess and learned the language of the gutter. The foreign secretaries of Britain and Spain also heard accounts from their spies that the boy was raped by prostitutes in order to infect him with venereal diseases to supply the [[Paris Commune (French Revolution)|Commune]] with manufactured "evidence" against the Queen.<ref name=nagel /> However, the scenes related by {{ill|Alcide de Beauchesne|fr}} of the physical torment of the child are not supported by any testimony, though he was at this time seen by a great number of people.

On 6 October, [[Jean-Nicolas Pache|Pache]], [[Pierre Gaspard Chaumette|Chaumette]], [[Jacques Hébert]] and others visited the boy and secured his signature to charges of sexual molestation against his mother and his aunt.<ref name=nagel>{{cite book|last=Nagel|first=Susan|title=Marie-Thérèse: the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter|year=2009|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-0-7475-9666-0|pages=137|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ydFDp1ZasMC }}</ref> The next day he met his elder sister [[Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte]] for the last time.