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Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de

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Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de (shärl fĕrdēnäN`, dük də bĕrē`), 1778–1820, younger son of Charles, comte d'Artois (later Charles X of France). He served in the prince de Condé's army against the French Revolution. His assassination during the reign of King Louis XVIII Louis XVIII, 1755–1824, king of France (1814–24), brother of King Louis XVI . Known as the comte de Provence, he fled (1791) to Koblenz from the French Revolution and intrigued to bring about foreign intervention against the revolutionaries.
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—an attempt to extinguish the Bourbon line—gave the ultraroyalists the opportunity to turn Louis XVIII against the liberals. Berry's posthumous son was Henri, comte de Chambord.


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