CHAMBORD (HENRI CHARLES FERDINAND MARIE DIEUDONNL D'ARTOIS, DUC DE BouD•Arx), Comte de, the representative of the elder branch of the house of Bourbon, and of its claims to the French throne, was b. in Paris, Sept. 29, 1820. He is the grandson of Charles X., and the son of the duke of Berri who was murdered by Louvel, Feb. 14, 1820. The duke of Angouleme, Charles X.'s eldest son, being childless, the duke of Berri was heir-presumptive; and as, at his death; be left only a daughter, the was great when, seven months after, his widow gave birth to a prince, who received the title of duke of Bordeaux—that of comte de C., by which he has latterly been known, being derived from the castle of C. (q.v.), presented to him at his baptism. He was baptized, amid circumstances of ^Teat pomp, with water brought by M. de Chtiteaubri and from the river Jordan, received the appellation of "'enfant du miracle (" the miraculous child "). When Charles X. abdicated the crown at the revolution in 1830. be did so in favor of his grandson, the duke of Bordeaux. The people, however, insisted on the "citizen king," and the elder Bourbons were banished. On the death of Charles X., the duke of Angouleme assumed the title of Louis XIX., and another party pro claimed the duke of Bordeaux king; but at last a reconciliation was brought about by prince Metternich. In 1839, the prince visited Italy, accompanied by his mother, and
was received by the petty courts with great distinction. After the death of the duke of Angoul6me, in 1844, the heads of the different fractions of legitimists met to pay their united homage, and the duke of Bordeaux made a "pilgrimage to Belgrave square" to receive it. In 1S46, he married the eldest daughter of the duke of Modena, who had never acknowledged the monarchy of July. After the revolution of 1848, many legiti mists were returned to the national assembly-. In 1850, the duke of Bordeaux, or count of C., as he styles himself, appeared at Wiesbaden, a congress of his adherents assembled to consult as to their future policy. As the count of C. is without heirs, a union, or "fusion," as it is called, of the partisans of the elder Bourbons with the Orleanists was effected, but no attempt made to carry out the arrangement. After the capitulation of Paris in 1871, the count of C. returned to France, and, under the title of Henry V., issued a proclamation, in which lie promised, if placed by the nation at the head of its affairs, to maintain the temporal power of the pope. Neither this nor subse quent manifestoes have induced the French people to accept of him as their king.