CAROLINE LOUISE duchess of Berry was compelled to follow Charles X. to Holyrood after July 183o, but it was with the reso lution of returning speedily and making an attempt to secure the throne for her son. From England she went to Italy, and in April 1832 she landed near Marseilles, but, receiving no support, made her way towards the loyal districts of Vendee and Brittany. Her followers, however, were defeated, and after remaining con cealed for five months in a house in Nantes she was betrayed to the government and imprisoned in the castle of Blaye. Here she gave birth to a daughter, the fruit of a secret marriage contracted with an Italian nobleman, Count Ettore Lucchesi-Palli (18o5 64). The announcement of this marriage at once deprived the duchess of the sympathies of her supporters. She was no longer an object of fear to the French government, who released her in June 1833. She set sail for Sicily, and, joining her husband, lived in retirement from that time till her death, at Brunnensee, in Switzerland, on April 16, 187o.
See Chateaubriand, Memoires touchant la vie et la mort du duc de Berry (1820) ; Imbert de Saint-Amand, La duchesse de Berry (1888–gI).