ANGOULEME, LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOURBON, Due D', the eldest son of Charles X. of France, and Dauphin during his father's reign, was b. at Versailles on the Oth Aug., 1775. He retired from France along with his father at the commencement of the Revo lution, and spent some time in military studies at Turin. In Aug., 1792, he entered Germany at the head of a body of French emigrants, but the ill success of the campaign and his own unfitness for military command led to his seeking tranquillity along with his father at Edinburgh. Till 1814, he continued an exile from France, wandering from one place to another on the continent, and latterly resident with the other members of his family in England. On the entrance of the allies into France, he appeared at the British headquarters at St. Jean de Luz, and thence issued a proclamation to the French army. He entered Bordeaux under protection of the British on 12th Mar., and made liberal promises in the name of his uncle, Louis XVIII., among which was that of com plete religious liberty. He was again in the south when Napoleon retunied from Elba.
He was appointed lieutenant-general of the kingdom, and hastened with such forces as he could collect to oppose the emperor; but although lie obtained sonic advantages at first, he was soon deserted by his troops, was for some days detained a prisoner, and at last. sent away in a Swedish merchant-vessel to Barcelona. After the second restoration, be was sent by Louis XVIII. to the southern provinces to repress the political and religious movements there, and in 1823 he led the French army into Spain to put an end to the constitution. A man of phlegmatic disposition and mean abilities, he was, in all political matters, a tool of the ultra-royalists and the priests. When the revolution took place in July, 1830, he signed, along with his father, an abdication in favor of his nephew, the Due de Bordeaux; and, when the Chambers declared the family of Charles X. to have forfeited the throne, he accompanied him into exile to Holyrood, to Prague, and to GOrL, where he died, 3d June, 1844.