Charles Ferdinand d\' Artois

See also: Berry (homonymy)

Charles Ferdinand d' Artois, Duke of Berry (Versailles, January 24th 1778 - Paris, February 13rd 1820), second wire of the count d' Artois, future king Charles X of France, and Marie Therese of Sardinia.

As of the beginnings of the French revolution, it emigrated with his/her father. Of 1792 with 1797, it was used in the army as Condé then passed in Great Britain. There, it had a connection with Amy Brown (1783-1876), of which it had two girls (who became the princess of Lucinge and the baroness of Cart).

Starting from 1807, Mister the count of Fare, bishop of Nancy, is given the responsability by Louis XVIII to pour to him, like with his/her brother Louis Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Angouleme, the important sums for the maintenance of its House and the pensions of the army of the princes to ensure the subsistence of its compatriots. All the communications of the continent with the England were prohibited and the soldiers of the armed with Cop could not resort any more to London to touch British government there their food pensions. Monseigneur of Fare was charged to schedule and check the payment of these pensions on houses of Banque of Vienna, in particular that of Baron J.J of Boesner, Banquier Viennese, which invested the funds on Hamburg and Augsburg like at M.A. Gnecco & Co and M.Heath & Co at Genoa. For and March April 1807, the payment was of 18.676 Livres tournaments, that is to say the sum of 149.408 Euros 2006, taking into account the commission of 130,5 books of Baron J.J of Boesner. Among the recipients of the pensions, one finds the names of the marquis de Montaignac, the captain knight of Badasset and the marquis d' Anjorrant inter alia. Monseigneur of Fare exerted this perilous employment until the Restauration.

It turned over to France at the time of the First Restoration. During the Hundred Days, it followed Louis XVIII to Ghent. It returned to France in 1814 with his father.

In 1816 in Notre-Dame de Paris, it married the princess Caroline of Deux-Siciles (1798-1870), oldest daughter of François I {{er}} of Deux-Siciles (1777-1830) and of Clémentine of Austria (1777-1801), from which it had four children, of which two arrived at the adulthood:

a girl, Louise d' Artois (1819 - 1864), which married in 1845 Charles III of Parma, duke of Parma (wire of Charles II, duke of Parma and Marie Therese of Sardinia). Louise was the paternal grandmother of the empress of Austria Zita.
a posthumous son, Henri d' Artois (September 29th 1820 † 1883), duke of Bordeaux, then “count de Chambord”, who married in 1846 Marie Therese of Modena (1817 - 1886); without posterity, it was the last Bourbon descendant of Louis XV.

Connected with the “Extremists”, these royalists reactionaries refusing the Charter, he was assassinated at his exit of the Opera the February 13rd 1820 by the workman Louvel, who wanted to extinguish in him the race of the Bourbons, and of which he had while dying generosity to forgive the gesture.

The duke of Berry is buried in the Basilique Saint-Denis.

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