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La Mort. [Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke de Berry.]

La Mort. [Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke de Berry.]

Lith. de Langlume r. de l'Abbaye. N.4.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Lithograph, sheet 230 x 280mm. 9 x 11". Sheet trimmed.
Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke de Berry (1778-1820) was on his death bed, his face covered and a crucifix to his chest; surrounded by grieving officers, and a woman and child in another room through a doorway in the background. The Duke de Berry was murdered by the Louis Pierre Louvel (c.1783-1820). It was 13th February 1820 as he left the opera house in Paris that Louvel stabbed and mortally wounded him. Louvel was tried and sentenced to death and guillotined a day later on 7 June 1820. Charles-Ferdinand was to be the future king of France, and his death hastened the downfall and replacement of the Decazes government and the polarisation with new liberal and royalist groups.
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