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Madame La Dauphine

This was the style of the dynastic wife of the dauphin. Some holders of the honorific were:

• Duchess Maria Anna Christine Victoria of Bavaria (1660–1690), also called Dauphine Victoire, first wife of le Grand Dauphin, and the grandmother of Louis XV (1710–1774)
• Princess Maria Adelaide of Savoy (1685–1712), wife of the Dauphin Louis (1682–1712) and mother of Louis XV.
• Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (1726–1746), first wife of Louis (1729–1765), the only son of Louis XV, and held the style till her death at age twenty-one.
• Duchess Maria Josefa of Saxony (1731–1767), second wife of the Dauphin Louis, and mother of Louis XVI (1754–1793), Louis XVIII (1755–1824) and Charles X (1757–1836).
• Archduchess Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna of Austria, Marie Antoinette was the dauphine until her husband succeeded to the throne in 1774 as Louis XVI.
• Princess Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France (1778–1851); daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, known as Madame Royale, she became the last Dauphine of France when her father-in-law, Charles X, succeeded to the throne in 1824.