Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France

Louise Marie Thérèse of France (Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois; born September 21, 1819, Élysée-Bourbon, Paris, France; died February 1, 1864, Palazzo Giustiniani, Venice, Austrian Empire) was the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of King Charles X of France, and Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies, daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies. As the granddaughter of the king, she was a Petite-Fille de France.

Her younger brother, Henri, comte de Chambord, was King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883.

At Schloss Frohsdorf on November 10, 1845, she married Ferdinando Carlo, Hereditary Prince of Lucca, known as Charles III, Duke of Parma after 1849. Ferdinando Carlo and Louise had four children:

* Margherita Maria Theresa Enrichetta of Bourbon-Parma (1847-1893): ∞ Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, had issue.
* Roberto Carlo Luigi Maria, Duke of Parma (1848-1907): ∞ Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (daughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Maria Theresa of Austria), had issue.: ∞ Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (daughter of King Miguel of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg), had issue.
* Alicia Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Rachael Giovanna Filomena of Bourbon-Parma (1849-1935): ∞ Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, had issue.
* Enrico Carlo Luigi Giorgio, Count of Bardi (1851-1905): ∞ Princess Maria Luisa Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (daughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Maria Theresa of Austria).: ∞ Infanta Adelgunde of Portugal, Duchess of Guimaraes (daughter of King Miguel of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg).

When her husband died in 1854, Louise served as Regent for their young son, the new duke Robert I. Like the other rulers of the Central Italian states, she and her son were ousted during the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, and they retired to Austrian protection in Venice. Various schemes following the war either for her and her son's restoration in Parma, or territorial swaps which might leave them ruling over Tuscany, Modena, or the Romagna, came to nothing, as the whole of central Italy was annexed by Piedmont in March of 1860. Louise lived out the remainder of her life in exile.

Louise died on February 1, 1864 at age 44 in Palazzo Giustiniani, Venice. She was buried in her grandfather Charles X's crypt at the Franciscan monastery Castagnavizza in Goritz, Austria (now Nova Gorica, Slovenia). Other members of the French Royal Family buried here include Louise's brother Henri, her aunt Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France, and her uncle Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême.

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1= 1. Louise Marie Thérèse of France
2= 2. Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
3= 3. Princess Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa of the Two Sicilies
4= 4. Charles X of France
5= 5. Princess Marie Thérèse of Savoy
6= 6. Francis I of the Two Sicilies
7= 7. Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria
8= 8. Louis, Dauphin of France
9= 9. Princess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony
10= 10. Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
11= 11. Maria Antonietta of Spain
12= 12. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
13= 13. Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria
14= 14. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
15= 15. Maria Louisa of Spain
16= 16. Louis XV of France
17= 17. Maria Leszczyńska
18= 18. Augustus III of Poland
19= 19. Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria
20= 20. Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
21= 21. Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg
22= 22. Philip V of Spain
23= 23. Elisabeth of Parma
24= 24. Charles III of Spain
25= 25. Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony
26= 26. Francis III Stephen, Duke of Lorraine
27= 27. Maria Theresa of Austria
28= 28. Francis III Stephen, Duke of Lorraine (= 26)
29= 29. Maria Theresa of Austria (= 27)
30= 30. Charles III of Spain (= 24)
31= 31. Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (= 25)