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Who is Artois from To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette and what is their importance?
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The handsome youngest brother of Louis XVI. Artois escaped France after the storming of the Bastille and attempted to raise a force to counter the revolutionaries from his base in Turin. He was rumored to have had an affair with Antoinette, which Erickson says was not true.