Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (24 January 1778-14 February 1820) was the youngest son of King Charles X of France and the father of Henri, Count of Chambord. He was murdered in 1820 by a Bonapartist.
Biography[]
Charles Ferdinand d'Artois was born in Versailles, France on 24 January 1778, the son of the future King Charles X of France. He went into exile with his father as a result of the French Revolution, and he served in the army of the French emigres during the French Revolutionary Wars, fighting alongside the Austrians on the Rhine before serving in the Imperial Russian Army. In 1814, he was named commander-in-chief of the army in Paris when Napoleon I returned to France from Elba, but he was forced to flee to Ghent when his army defected to Napoleon. On 13 February 1820, Charles Ferdinand was stabbed to death by Bonapartist saddle maker Louis Pierre Louvel as he left the opera house in Paris, and his posthumous son Henri, Count of Chambord would be seen by the Legitimists as the legitimate heir to the Kingdom of France after the overthrow of the Bourbon Restoration regime.