Biography of Henry d'Artois

The King missed

29 September 1820
24 October 1883
Enrico Dieudonné d'Artois, Comte de Chambord was born in Paris on 29 September 1820, seven months after the death of his father Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry, grandson of King Charles X and heir to the throne of France, assassinated on 14 February 1820 for his extreme royalist. His mother Caroline of Bourbon in Naples is thus already a widow when she gives birth, but must soon see that this child has inherited the political passion of the father and the same hatred for the revolution and for constitutionalism.
And it is precisely his political ideas that will exclude him from the succession to the throne, despite Charles X abdicated in his favor, and that they'll proclaim instead his cousin, the Duke of Orléans, Louis-Philippe of the cadet branch of the Bourbon, King of the French. According to a legalistic argument and legitimist Enrico has held the title of King of France from 2 August 1830, date of August 9, 1830 to Charles X's abdication, thesis, however, never recognized by official records. We are in 1830 and he, even at an early age, while remaining claimant to the throne as Henry V is forced to flee from France. He took refuge in Austria, on 7 November 1846 he married Maria Theresa of Austria Este, three years older, daughter of Duke Francis IV of Modena and Maria Beatrice of Savoy, but the couple remain childless. He spent the years beginning with the 1830 in a substantial political inactivity until, with the fall of Napoleon III in 1870, readily stands to actual pretender to the throne.
Declaring war on Prussia, by the French Emperor, turned out to be in fact a reckless act: 19 July 1870, started the war ends with the defeat of France next September 2 and his surrender to William i. leader of legitimist, Enrico launches various proclamations from the French in which advocates a constitutional monarchy and Parliament now finds favor with a majority of the monarchy. But his radicalism, once again, stand in the way: the delegation of MEPs who meets him in the castle of Frohsdorf, Austria, which he bought in 1851, States, in fact, has no intention to become the "King of the revolution", which has opposed, rejecting the Tricolor flag, resulting in the failure of his own attempt at the Bourbon Restoration. Air pressure so the ascent to the throne, the French Parliament decided to wait for his death by naming King Louis-Philippe Albert of Orléans, nephew of Louis-Philippe I.
The latter, however, can be only pretender to the throne as Philip VII because, when Henry died, the new Parliament will establish the French Republic. Henry V shuts in Lanzenkirchen, Austria, on 24 August 1883, at the age of 63 years. With his death extinguishes the first-born of the Bourbons of France.
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