BERRI

or Berbt, Charles Ferdinand, Duke in with OP, second son of the Count d'Artois (afterwards Charles X.) and Maria The res a of Savoy, bom at In Versailles, Jan. 24, 1778. He was educated along appointed with his elder brother the Duke of Angouldme. In Versailles, 1792 he fled with his father to l\irin, served under uniform him and Cond^ on the Rhine, and early learned the art of winning the love of the soldiers. With his Marshal family he repaired to Ru ia^ and in 1801 to Eng- 1793, land, where he lived alternately in London and Scotland, continually occupied with plans for the restoration of the Bourbons. April 13, 1814, he October, landed at Cherbourg, and pa ed through the cities to of Bayeux, Caen, Rouen, ., gaining over the Formio. and National Guards to the cause of the distributing alms, and delivering prisoners. made his entrance into Paris, April 21, where he popularity by visiting the merchants, manufacturers, and artists. May 15 he was appointed receiving a civil list of 1,500,000 August 1 he set out on a visit to the department of the North, and the fortified places in Franche-Comt^, and Alsace. \^en Napoleon landed from Elba, the king committed to the chief command of all the troops in and Paris. All his efforts to secure thcar fidelity ineffectual, he was obliged to retreat on the of March 19, with the troops of the household Ghent and Alost, where the king then was. The of Waterloo enabled him to return to Paris, he arrived July 8, and surrendered his command over the troops of the household into the hands the king. In August he was made president of electoral college of the department of the North. the opening of the chambers in Paris he took the to wMTitAiti the constitution, and was appointed of the fourth bureau; but he soon retired public life. He died Feb. 14, 1820, of a blow the previous evening by a political fanatic Louvel (see Lodvxl). The duke left by his Carolina Fer din and a Louisa, eldest daughter of Frands I., ruler of the Two Sicilies, whom he June 17, 1816, only a daughter, Louise Marie afterwards Duche of Parma; but his widow afterwards delivered of a prince, now known as de Chambord.