Louis Francis Philibert (Italian: Ludovico Francesco Filiberto) was the second child and eldest son of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, a grandson of French King Louis XV and Marie Leczinska, and his wife Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria.

[1] In 1795, Louis came to the Spanish court to finish his education and also to marry one of the daughters of King Charles IV of Spain, who were his first cousins.

The couple had two children: While Louis was staying in Spain, the Duchy of Parma had been occupied by French troops in 1796.

Having been invested in Paris as King of Etruria, Louis and his family arrived in August 1801 at his new capital, Florence.

Back in Etruria, Louis's health worsened, and in May 1803, he died at the age of twenty-nine, possibly due to an epileptic crisis.