CHAMBORD, HENRI CHARLES FERDINAND MARIE D'ARTOIS, Dile de Bordeaux, Comte de (1820-S3). A Bourbon claimant to the French throne. He was the son of the Due de Berry. who was murdered by Louvel on Feb ruary 13, 1820, and the grandson of Charles X. Seven months after the death of the Due de Berry. who was heir presumptive to the throne of France, his widow gave birth to a prince, who received the title of Due de Bordeaux—that of count, by which he was subsequently known, be ing derived from the castle of Chambord (q.v.), presented to him at his christening. He was baptized amid circumstances of great pomp. with water brought by Chateaubriand from the River Jordan, and received the appellation of ]'enfant du miracle. Chambord was chosen by Charles X. to succeed him when, in 1830, lie abdicated the French throne: and at the death of Charles the Legitimists proclaimed Chambord king. 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 Due d'Angouleme, in 1844, the heads of the dif ferent factions of Legitimists met in London to pay their united homage, and the Duc de Bor deaux made a "pilgrimage to Belgrave Square" to receive it. In 1846 he married a sister of the
Due de :Modena, who had never acknowledged the monarchy of July. After the Revolution of 1848 many Legitimists were returned to the Na tional Assembly, and in 1850 the Comte de Cham bord appeared at Wiesbaden, where a congress of his adherents assembled to consult as to their future policy. As the Comte de Chambord was without heirs, a union of the partisans of the elder Bourbons with the Orleanists was ef feeted, but no attempts were made to carry out the arrangement. After the fall of Napoleon 11 I ., in 1870, repeated attempts were again made to effect a coalition between the supporters of the Bourbons and the Orleanist claims: but chance there might have been for a royal restoration during the troubled days of the Third Republic before 1880 were ruined by the ('unite de Chambord's obstinate refusal to aban don his extreme Legitimist views, which lie aired more than once in 'royal' proclamations. Ile died at Frohsdorf, in Lower Austria, which had been his residence for many years, August 24, 1883.