Le Duc De Berry

Younger son of Charles, Count of Artois (later King Charles X of France, q.v.) and Marie Thérèse of Savoy. Served in the prince de Condé's army against the French Revolution (1792-97). Then joined the Russian army, and settled in England (1801), where he married married Anna Brown, who bore him two daughters: the baronne de Charette and the comtesse de Lucinge-Faucigny. The marriage was cancelled in 1814, when Charles Ferdinand returned to France, where he was named commander in chief of the troops in Paris by Louis XVIII; but he retired during the Hundreds Days (1815). In 1816, he married princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise, daughter of Francis I of the Two-Sicilies. Charles Ferdinand was assassinated in an attempt to extinguish the Bourbon line (February 13, 1820). His posthumous son, born seven months after his death, was Henri, comte de Chambord. - Taken from the British Museum. From a folder of loose engravings entitled 'University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Department French Language and Literature. Portraits. From the F. W. Rudler Collection'.