Charles Ferdinand | |||||
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Duke of Berry | |||||
Born | Palace of Versailles, France | 24 January 1778||||
Died | 14 February 1820 Paris, France | (aged 42)||||
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Issue Detail | Louise, Duchess of Parma Henri, Count of Chambord Charlotte, comtesse d'Issoudun (illegitimate) | ||||
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House | Bourbon | ||||
Father | Charles X | ||||
Mother | Maria Theresa of Savoy | ||||
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Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry (24 January 1778 – 14 February 1820) was the third child and younger son of Charles X, King of France, (whom he predeceased) by his wife 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.