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OF THE STUARTS. 157
Theresa, second daughter of King Victor Amadens
III., and the only one of that monarch's numerous
family, besides his second son, Victor Emanuel, who
had issue, married, 1773, the Count d'Artois, after-
wards Charles X. By him she had issue, two sons,
Louis, born, 1775, Due d'Angouleme, then Dauphin,
for a moment Louis XIX. of Prance, who married
his cousin, Mary Theresa, daughter of Louis XVL,
and died, succession perishing, 1844 ; and Charles
Due de Berri, born 1778, who married, after the
Bestoration, 1816, Caroline, daughter of ^Ferdinand
I., King of the Two Sicilies. By this princess the
Due de Berri had issue a daughter, Louisa, born
1819, married to the late Duke of Parma, and who
now rules that Duchy as Begent for her infant son,
Bobert; and a son, Henry (posthumous), born
1820, King of Prance, de jure, who was expatriated
by the Bevolution of 1830, and has since assumed
the title of Comte de Chambord. He married, 1846,
Theresa, daughter of Prancis IV., Duke of Modena,
but has no issue. The Due de Berri was assassi-
nated by Louvel as he was coming out of a Parisian
theatre, Pebruary, 1820.
The descendants of Adelaide, eldest daughter of
Anne, Queen of Sardinia, Progenitress of the second
offshoot from the House of Stuart, curiously enough,
by her marriage with the Duke of Burgundy,
grandson of Louis XIV., commingled with, and be-
came absorbed in those of the House of Bourbon.
The only son of Adelaide who survived was Louis
XV., King of Prance, who was born in 1710, and

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