On this occasion the royal baby was the Duc de Berry, the future King Louis XVI. The conductor Hugo Reyne notes the historical irony of identifying Louis XVI with Osiris, a god who was murdered, just as Louis was to be guillotined in 1793.
On this occasion, the royal heir was the Duc de Berry, destined to become King Louis XVI. Historian Hugo Reyne notes the striking similarity between Louis XVI and Osiris, a god who suffered a similar fate of murder, foreshadowing Louis's own execution by guillotine in 1793.