Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, given the…

Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, given the honorific title at birth of Madame Royale, is finally born at Versailles, after a particularly difficult labour, on December 19, 1778, following an ordeal where the queen had literally collapsed from suffocation and hemorrhaging.

The queen's bedroom was packed with courtiers watching the birth, and the doctor aiding her supposedly caused the excessive bleeding by accident.

The windows had to be torn out to revive her.

This incident has a variant: some sources purport that it was the Princesse de Lamballe who lost consciousness, and to prevent the queen from doing the same, the king himself—rather unusually—let in some air by tearing off the tapes that sealed the windows.

In any case, as a result of this harrowing experience, the queen and the king ban most courtiers from entering her bedchamber for subsequent labors.