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Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry

1778 - 1820

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Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry (24 January 1778 – 14 February 1820), was the third child and younger son of Charles, Count of Artois (later King Charles X of France), and Maria Theresa of Savoy. In 1820 he was assassinated at the Paris Opera by Louis Pierre Louvel, a Bonapartist. In June 1832, two years after the overthrow of Charles X, an unsuccessful royalist insurrection in the Vendée was led by Charles Ferdinand's widow, Marie-Caroline, in an attempt to restore their son Henri, Comte de Chambord, to the French throne. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry is the 3,454th most popular politician (down from 3,205th in 2019), the 1,052nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,025th in 2019) and the 247th most popular French Politician.

Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry was a son of King Charles X of France. He was assassinated in 1820 by the son of a rival.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry ranks 3,454 out of 19,576. Before him are Mikhail Mishustin, Lucius Julius Caesar, Emperor Kōtoku, Sajida Talfah, Fujiko Fujio, and Harald Quandt. After him are Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator, Causantín mac Cináeda, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Duke of Zhou, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and Pál Teleki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry ranks 15. Before him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Fernando Sor. After him are Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Ugo Foscolo, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Carl Ludvig Engel, and Kittur Chennamma. Among people deceased in 1820, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry ranks 10. Before him are Daniel Boone, Elisa Bonaparte, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, François Christophe de Kellermann, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and François Joseph Lefebvre. After him are Manuel Belgrano, Joseph Banks, Henri Christophe, Anders Sparrman, Gia Long, and Jean-Lambert Tallien.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry ranks 1,052 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644), Michel Rolle (1652), Marcel Dupré (1886), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Philippe Ariès (1914), and Thierry Henry (1977). After him are Louis-Jules Trochu (1815), Stéphane Audran (1932), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Jean Giraud (1938), Jean Moulin (1899), and Maurice Druon (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry ranks 247. Before him are Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), Sigebert II (602), Magdalena of France (1443), Inessa Armand (1874), Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), and Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644). After him are Louis-Jules Trochu (1815), Jean Moulin (1899), Charles III of Navarre (1361), Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082), William X, Duke of Aquitaine (1099), and Tetricus I (250).

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