Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry

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Princess Marie-Caroline
Duchess of Berry
Duchess della Grazia
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Caroline in 1825 by Thomas Lawrence
Born (1798-11-05)5 November 1798
Caserta Palace, Caserta, Italy
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Brunnsee, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Burial Mureck Cemetery, Mureck, Austria
Spouse Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli
Issue Louise Marie Thérèse, Duchess of Parma
Henri, Count of Chambord
Anna Maria Rosalia Lucchesi-Palli
Clementina Lucchesi-Palli
Francesca di Paola Lucchesi-Palli
Maria Isabella Lucchesi-Palli
Adinolfo Lucchesi-Palli, 9th Duke della Grazia
Full name
Italian: Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa
French: Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise
House Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father Francis I of the Two Sicilies
Mother Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria
Religion Roman Catholic
Signature

Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchess de Berry[1] (Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luise; 5 November 1798 – 17 April 1870) was an Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who married into the French royal family, and was the mother of Henri, Count of Chambord, the last serious Bourbon pretender to the crown of France.

Life

Caroline was born at Caserta Palace in Naples. She was the eldest child of Prince Ferdinand, the future King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first wife, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, the tenth child and third daughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. Her parents were double first cousins.

Caroline was baptised with the names of her paternal grandparents, Maria Carolina of Austria and King Ferdinand of Naples.

She spent her youth in Palermo and in Naples. Her mother died in 1801; her father married again in 1802 to Infanta Maria Isabella of Spain, another first cousin, and had twelve more children.

In 1816, French ambassador Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas arranged with the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily [lower-alpha 1] for Caroline to marry Louis XVIII of France's nephew, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. The marriage was held on 24 April 1816 in Naples. Caroline thus became Duchesse de Berry; known as Madame de Berry in France.

Even though it was an arranged marriage, it was a happy marriage, with Caroline and her husband living at the Élysée Palace in Paris which was given to them.

They had four children, of which two survived infancy. The elder was Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois (1819-1864). The Duke was assassinated in 1820; Caroline was then pregnant with their fourth child, Henri, Count of Chambord (1820-1883), who was dubbed the "miracle child", as his birth continued the direct Bourbon line of King Louis XIV of France. (His grand-uncle the King, his grandfather, the future Charles X of France, and Charles' other son Louis Antoine all had no sons.) He was thus going to be the eventual heir to the throne. As his mother, Caroline became an important figure in the politics of the Bourbon Restoration.

In 1824, Louis XVIII died and was succeeded by Caroline's father-in-law as Charles X.

In the July Revolution of 1830, Charles X was overthrown. Both Charles and his elder son abdicated; but their cousin Louis Philippe of Orléans did not proclaim Henri as king. Instead he allowed the National Assembly to declare him king. Caroline and Henri went into exile in with Charles and his family. She lived in Bath for a time, and then joined Charles and Louis Antoine in Edinburgh. Charles lived in Holyrood Palace, but Caroline (and also Louis Antoine) lived in Regent Terrace.[2]

Caroline did not find conditions in Edinburgh agreeable, nor did she accept her son's exclusion from the throne by the Orléanist "King of the French". She declared her son to be the legitimate king, and herself to be regent. In 1831 she left Edinburgh, and returned to her family in Naples via the Netherlands, Prussia, and Austria.[2] From Naples, with the help of the Vicomte de Saint Priest, she intrigued for a Legitimist rebellion to "restore" Henri to the throne. She also secretly married an Italian nobleman, Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duca della Grazia (1805–1864) on 14 December of that year.[3] In April 1832 she landed near Marseille. Receiving little support, she made her way to the Vendée and Brittany, where she succeeded in instigating a brief but abortive insurrection in June 1832. However, her followers were defeated. After remaining hidden for five months in a house in Nantes, she was betrayed to the government in November 1832 and imprisoned in the Chateau of Blaye.[4]

During her incarceration, she gave birth to a daughter, and her remarriage was revealed, which lost her the sympathies of the Legitimists. She had French nationality by her marriage to the Duke of Berry, but lost it by her remarriage to an Italian; thus she was in theory ineligible to serve as regent. She was no longer an object of fear to the French government, which released her in June 1833. [4]

She went to Sicily with her husband. The child born in prison died, but they had four additional living children.[3] In 1844, Caroline and her husband purchased the beautiful palazzo Ca' Vendramin Calergi on the Grand Canal in Venice from the last member of the Vendramin family line.

In the turmoil of the Risorgimento, they had to sell the palazzo to her grandson, Prince Henry, Count of Bardi, and many of its fine works of art were auctioned in Paris.[5] They retired to Brunnsee, near Graz in Austria. Her husband died there in 1864, and she died in 1870.

French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père wrote two stories about her and her plotting.

Patron of the arts

Even as member of the royal family, the Duchess of Berry was an exceptional theatre-goer. She was the patron of the Théâtre du Gymnase, which changed its name, for a time, to the théâtre de Madame, in her honor. She attended the Odéon at least nine times during 1824 to 1828. She contributed to benefit performances, such as that of Giacomo Rossini's La dame du lac (1826), for victims of the fire at Antonio Franconi's Cirque Olympique; she contributed 500 francs.[6]

La moisson (1822) by Auguste-Xavier Leprince, oil on canvas, 24.2 x 32.1 cm, featured in her 1822 sale

The Duchess of Berry and her first husband, Charles-Ferdinand d'Artois, were enthusiastic art collectors. Her sale of 1822 was novel for its catalogue which contained lithographic reproductions of all the works.[7][8] Lithography, invented by Alois Senefelder, had only been fully described in 1818 in Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerei, translated into French in 1819. The lithographs, produced by Isidore Laurent Deroy[9] sparked an interest in the technique as a means for reproducing art.[10]

She was a collector of landscapes; her collection featured at least three by Ruisdael.[11] She had several genre scenes by Auguste-Xavier Leprince[9] and she owned works by Jan van der Heyden,[12] Michel Philibert Genod,[13] François Marius Granet, Pauline Auzou, Jean-Claude Bonnefond, Charles Marie Bouton, Martin Drolling, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, and Achille Etna Michallon, among many others.[7]

The Duchess was known to patronise the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, commissioning notable works by Jean-Charles-François Leloy.[14]

Issue

Children with Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry:[3]

Children with Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duke della Grazia:[3]

Ancestors

Family of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16. Philip V of Spain (=28)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8. Charles III of Spain (=14)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17. Elisabeth Farnese (=29)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4. Ferdinand I of Two Sicilies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18. Augustus III of Poland (=30)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9. Maria Amalia of Saxony (=15)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19. Maria Josepha of Austria(=31)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2. Francis I of the Two Sicilies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (=24)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (=12)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (=25)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5. Maria Carolina of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 22. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (=26)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11. Maria Theresa of Austria (=13)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (=27)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, Duchess of Berry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (=20)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (=10)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (=21)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (=22)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13. Maria Theresa of Austria (=11)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (=23)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3. Clementina of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 28. Philip V of Spain (=16)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14. Charles III of Spain (=8)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 29. Elisabeth Farnese (=17)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7. Maria Luisa of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30. Augustus III of Poland (=18)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15. Maria Amalia of Saxony (=9)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31. Maria Josepha of Austria (=19)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Notes

  1. ↑ Which became the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in December.

References

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Further reading

  • Cronin, Vincent. Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal. London: Collins, 1965; also published as The Romantic Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.

External links

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