Maria Theresa of Savoy
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Maria Theresa of Savoy was a French princess by marriage to Charles Philippe, Count of Artois. Her husband was the grandson of Louis XV and younger brother of Louis XVI. 19 years after Maria Theresa’s
Portrait of Maria Theresa of Savoy by François-Hubert Drouais, 1775
Portrait of Princess Maria Theresa in her early years (by Giuseppe Duprà, ca. 1762)
A portrait of Princess Maria Theresa in 1775, two years after her marriage in 1773 (by Joseph Ducreux)
Marie Thérèse with her three surviving children, by Charles Le Clercq, 1783.
Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry, was the third child and younger son of Charles, Count of Artois, and Maria Theresa of Savoy. In 1820 he was assassinated at the Paris Opera by Louis Pierre L
Maria Theresa of Savoy
…daughter, Sophie, who was known as Mademoiselle as the most senior unmarried princess at court. She died at the age of seven in 1783. Her second son, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, was born in 1778. Her last child, Marie Thérèse d'Artois, presumably named after her mother, died while the court was at Choisy-le-Roi at the age of…
Portrait of the Duke of Berry by François Gérard, 1820
Charles Ferdinand (left) with his older brother Louis Antoine and sister Sophie, 1781.
The Duke of Berry Shooting an Eagle in the Forest of Fontainebleau by Hippolyte Lecomte, 1818
Assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, while departing a Parisian opera house at night.