Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Member of the French royal family (1778-1820) · France · On the map · Politicians · Died at 42
Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry, was the third child and younger son of Charles, Count of Artois, and Maria Theresa of Savoy. In 1820 he was assassinated at the Paris Opera by Louis Pierre Louvel, a Bonapartist.
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Charles Ferdinand (left) with his older brother Louis Antoine and sister Sophie, 1781.
The Duke of Berry Shooting an Eagle in the Forest of Fontainebleau by Hippolyte Lecomte, 1818
Assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, while departing a Parisian opera house at night.
The Death of the Duke of Berry by Alexandre Menjaud
Portrait of the Duchess of Berry by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1824
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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.
