Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Charles -Ferdinand d' Artois (German Karl Ferdinand of Artois ), Duke of Berry ( born January 24, 1778 in Versailles, † February 14, 1820 in Paris) was the younger son of the Comte d' Artois, later King Charles X.
Life
During the French Revolution he left France with his father and served in the army of Condé from 1792 to 1797. Afterwards, he joined the Russian army in 1801 settled in England and stayed there for thirteen years. After the abdication of Napoleon 1814, Berry went back to France. With his sincere demeanor, he won the sympathy of his countrymen, and Louis XVIII. appointed him commander of the army of Paris at Napoleon's return from Elba. However, he was unable to retain the loyalty of his troops and withdrew during the " rule of the Hundred Days " to Ghent.
On February 13, 1820, Louis -Pierre Louvel Sattler perpetrated upon leaving the Opera (then the Salle Montansier, rue de la Loi, square Louvois today ) a deadly attack on the Duke of Berry.
In the following years he became a symbol of the restoration. When, after the July Revolution of 1830 took place on February 14, 1831 in the Paris church of Saint- Germain l'Auxerrois a memorial mass for him, there was a violent mass protest, during which the church of St -Germain devastated and the Bishop's Palace at the Cathedral Notre Dame was completely destroyed.
Marriages and descendants
In the English emigration Charles went with the married Anna Brown Freeman (1783-1876), daughter of the Anglican priest John L. Brown and Anne Deacon, a ratio of one. Anna was already the mother of a son born in 1804 John, but had never recognized their marriage. So the Duke and Anna were married in 1806. They had two children together:
- Charlotte Marie Augustine de Bourbon (1808-1886), since 1820 Countess of Issoudun, married since 1823 with Duke Ferdinand Victor Amédée de Faucigny - Lucinge.
- Louise Marie Charlotte de Bourbon (1809-1891), since 1820 Countess of Vierzon, since 1827 married to Baron Charles Athanae Marin de Charette de la Contrie.
1815, the marriage was officially divorced with Anna. A year later, Berry married Princess Marie Caroline of Bourbon- Sicily (1798-1870), the eldest daughter of the then Crown Prince Franz of the Two Sicilies and the now-deceased Crown Princess Mary Clementine. They had two children:
- Louise Marie Thérèse d' Artois (1819-1864) ∞ Duke Charles III. of Parma (1823-1854)
- Henri d' Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, Comte de Chambord (1820-1883), ∞ under the name of Henri V. since 1830/44 Bourbon pretender to the throne Princess Maria Theresa of Austria -Este, daughter of Duke Francis IV of Modena -Este
Henri came seven months after the assassination of his father, and raised as awaited, posthumously born heir to the throne as the " enfant du miracle": hailed as the " miracle child."
D' Artois was Colonel Général of Chevau - légers - lanciers.