Jean Amilcar (c. 1781–1796) was the adopted son (foster child) of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France.
He was enslaved as a child and then bought from local slavers by the French official Chevalier de Boufflers, who wished to spare him the deadly transatlantic crossing.
[2] When Chevalier de Boufflers returned to France in 1787, he brought with him Amilcar, and presented him to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, as a 'gift'.
In contrast to the Queen's other foster children Armand Gagné, Ernestine Lambriquet, and 'Zoë' Jeanne Louise Victoire, he was not kept at court.
Displaying a talent for drawing, Jean Amilcar was able to enrol at the Liancourt Academy in Paris with state support in 1796.