Editing Louis XVII (section)

====1795: Death====
[[File:Jeton sur la mort de louis XVII.jpg|thumb|Louis XVII]]
On 31 March 1795, {{ill|Étienne Lasne|fr}} was appointed to be the child's guardian in place of Laurent. In May that year the boy was seriously ill, and a doctor, [[P. J. Desault]], who had visited him seven months earlier, was summoned. However, on 1 June, Desault himself died suddenly, not without suspicion of poison, and it was some days before doctors [[Philippe-Jean Pelletan]] and [[Jean-Baptiste Dumangin]] were called.

Louis-Charles died on 8 June 1795. The next day an autopsy was conducted by Pelletan. In the report it was stated that a child apparently about 10 years of age, "which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son", had died of a [[scrofulous]] infection of long standing. "Scrofula" as it was previously known, is nowadays called ''[[tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis]]'' referring to a [[lymphadenitis]] (chronic [[lymph node]] swelling or infection) of the neck ([[cervical lymph nodes]]) associated with [[tuberculosis]].<ref>{{DorlandsDict|nine/100011836|tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Beauchesne|first=Alcide|title=Louis XVII: His Life, His Suffering, His Death, the Captivity of the Royal Family in the Temple, Volume 1|publisher=Palala Press|date=20 May 2016|isbn=978-1357844646}}</ref> During the autopsy, the physician Dr. Pelletan was shocked to see the countless scars which covered the boy's body, evidently the result of the physical mistreatment which the child had suffered while imprisoned in the Temple.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024|reason=Given the allegations of abuse sourcing this is very important}}

Louis-Charles was buried on 10 June in the [[Sainte Marguerite cemetery]], but no stone was erected to mark the spot. A skull was found there in 1846 and identified as his, though later re-examination in 1893 showed it to be from a teenager and therefore unlikely to be his.<ref>{{cite book|author=Xavier de Roche|title=Louis XVII. Le livre du bicentenaire|publisher=Editions de Paris|date=1995|page=12|language=fr}}</ref>