Naundorff, The Lost Crown Prince Case

Was Louis XVII still alive? The son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who were beheaded during the French Revolution?  Here is: Part One of the Naundorff Biography - and this is Part Two:
 

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Madame de Rambaud, who was a true mother for the dauphin, was the most important witness who recognised Naundorff in 1834 as the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Agathe de Rambaud had become a widow at a very young age, after which she became the nanny of the dauphin, first at Versailles and later in the Tuileries. After she had protected the child with her own life during the most anxious days of the Revolution, she escaped from the Tuileries on 10 August 1792, while her “beloved dauphin” was taken to the Temple.

Agathe de Rambaud survived the Terror, but she did lose all will to live. She refound that courage when she met Karl Wilhelm Naundorff. Amongst other things, he was able to provide her with details about a mantle the crown prince had worn briefly for a period when he was five years old. She became one of his closest followers.

Monsieur de Brémond – the former secretary of Louis XVI – sent a letter to Madame Royale: “As servant of your honourable father, I have seen in Charles-Guillaum Naundorff the child of the Temple, your honourable brother, the duke of Normandy, and have now become his servant.”

And why did this monsieur de Brémond believe Naundorff? Because he had told him about “a secret hiding place”! There is some uncertainty about the precise nature of this hiding place and whether or not it should be located in the Tuileries or elsewhere. Several unnecessary searches had been held, so Naundorff would not have been alone in being able to know such anecdotes. It also did not necessarily have to involve an iron chest or like.

From the depositions made by monsieur de Brémond, it was shown that Louis XVI merely hid certain documents that were destined for the successor to the throne in the presence of his son. Louis Charles was seven years old at the time and did not fully comprehend what was happening, but his father told him that he needed to read those documents in this secret hiding place as soon as he was old enough. It could therefore just as well be an armchair which Louis XVI had transported from the Tuileries to the Temple, and which at a certain moment following the death of Louis XVI was acquired by the English prince-regent and eventually ended up in the atelier of a Berlin tapissier. And there a friend – more precisely: the watchmaker Naundorff – accidentally discovered the papers of Louis XVI in the presence of his son, hidden in the fabric of the chair.