roughly a year after maria theresa's arrival at versailles, she became pregnant with her first child, louis antoine, duke of angoulême: he was the first child of the new royal generation, which was an important event, as there was at that point concern for the succession because the marriage of both the king as well as that of the first of his brothers, the count of provence, were childless, and the birth was reportedly stressful to marie antoinette, at the time anxious for the consummation of her marriage to take place and concerned for her lack of children. after this birth, marie antoinette was harassed by the public for not given birth herself.