About Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry (24 January 1778 – 14 February 1820), was the third child and younger son of Charles, Count of Artois (later King Charles X of France), and Maria Theresa of Savoy. In 1820 he was assassinated at the Paris Opera by Louis Pierre Louvel, a Bonapartist. In June 1832, two years after the overthrow of Charles X, an unsuccessful royalist insurrection in the Vendée was led by Charles Ferdinand's widow, Marie-Caroline, in an attempt to restore their son Henri, Comte de Chambord, to the French throne. == Biography == Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry, was born at Versailles. He was the third child and second son of Charles, Count of Artois, younger brother of Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII and himself the future King Charles X. His mother Maria Theresa of Savoy was a daughter of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain (youngest daughter of Philip V of Spain). As his father was a fils de France, but not heir apparent, Charles Ferdinand was only a petit-fils de France, and thus bore his father's appanage title as surname while an emigré. After the Restoration in 1815, his father was heir presumptive, so Charles Ferdinand was allowed the higher rank of a fils de France (used in his marriage contract, his death certificate, et cetera). Since he was already dead when his father became king, he and his surviving daughter always had "Artois" as surname. During the French Revolution, he left France with his father, then Count of Artois, and joined the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé of his cousin, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, serving from 1792 to 1797. He fought in the Rhine Campaign of 1796, and achieved particular distinction at the Battle of Emmendingen and the Battle of Schliengen.
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