Château Neuf in St Germain en Laye / Pavillon Henri IV


Louis XIII got married to Anne d'Autriche in 1615.
Their marriage was full of complications and disharmony
and it took them a very long time to give birth to an heir of the crown of France.



Louis XIV was finaly born 23 years after the marriage of his parents,
September 5th 1638 at the Pavillon Henri IV
in Saint Germain en Laye.
This birth, as it came so late, was seen as a miracle of God.
As a result Louis XIV is sometimes discribed as
"Louis-Dieudonné" (Louis the God-given).


Louis XIV is born at the Château Neuf de St Germain en Laye Septembre 5 1638.


The Château Neuf does not exist any longer, but a few things remain
among them the last building on the right side, the Pavillon Henri VI.


View on the room where Louis XIV was born.



2 years later, September 21 1640
was born a second child,
his brother Prince Philippe de Bourbon, later the Duke Philippe d'Orleans.

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