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BERRY, CHARLES FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1778 1820), younger son of Charles X. of France, left France during the Revolution, with his father, then comte d'Artois, and served in the army of Conde from 1792 to 1797. He afterwards joined the Russian army, and in 18oI took up his residence in England, where he remained for 13 years. During that time he married an Englishwoman, Anna Brown, by whom he had two daughters, afterwards the baronne de Charette and the comtesse de Lucinge Faucigny. The marriage was cancelled for political reasons in 1814, when the duke set out for France. His frank, open manner gained him some favour with his countrymen, and Louis XVIII. named him commander in chief of the army at Paris on the return of Napoleon from Elba. He retired to Ghent during the Hundred Days. In 1816 he married the princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise (1798-187o), eldest daughter of King Francis I. of Naples. On Feb. 13, 182o, he was mortally wounded, when leaving the opera house at Paris with his wife, by a saddler named Louis Pierre Louvel. Seven months after his death the duchess gave birth to a son, who received the title of duke of Bordeaux, but who is known in history as the comte de Chambord. A daughter, after wards duchess of Parma, was born in 1819.

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