Clotilde of France

Names
	Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière de France

Clotilde of France
Clotilde of France
Queen consort of Sardinia
Tenure	16 October 1796 – 7 March 1802
Born	23 September 1759; Palace of Versailles, Versailles, Kingdom of France
Died	7 March 1802 (aged 42); Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Burial	11 March 1802; Church of Santa Caterina a Chiaia
Spouse	Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (m. 1775)
Names
Names
	Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière de France
House	Bourbon
Father	Louis, Dauphin of France
Mother	Maria Josepha of Saxony
Signature
	; Coat of arms of Queen Clotilde of France

Marie Clotilde of France^[3]^[4] (Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière; 23 September 1759 – 7 March 1802), known as Clotilde in Italy, was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. She was the younger sister of Louis XVI of France. She was politically active and acted as the de facto first minister of her spouse during his reign.^[5] She is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable by Pope Pius VII.

^ On the surname of the children of the King of France and of members of the French royal family: Diderot & d'Alembert Encyclopédie méthodique: Jurisprudence, Paris, 1786 [1], pp. 159–160 (French)
^ Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon, Vol. 2, (Publisher Mansut Fils, 4 Rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris, 1825), p. 168 [2]
^ Burke's Royal Families of the World Volume I ISBN 0-85011-023-8 on p. 364 shows that (1) her father's geographic epithet was "of France" and (2) that her name of address in Sardinia was Clotilde (not Maria Clotilde)
^ David Williamson in Debrett's Kings and Queens of Europe ISBN 0-86350-194-X pp. 81 & 159 show that (1) her father's (not a king himself) geographic epithet was "of France" and (2) that her French name of address was Clotilde (not Marie-Clotilde)
^ Cite error: The named reference Woodacre, Elena was invoked but never defined (see the help page).