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Chambord, Henri Charles Dieudonné, Comte de 1820-83
French Bourbon pretender
He was born in Paris and after the assassination of his father, the Duc de Berry, he was taken into exile with the remaining Bourbons following the abdication in 1830 of King Charles X, whose grandson he claimed to be. On Charles' death in 1836, he was proclaimed King of France by the Legitimist Party. Another attempt was made after the fall of Napoleon III in 1870, since the National Assembly elected in 1871 had a royalist majority, but Chambord's refusal to accept the tricolour flag rendered this abortive; a motion to restore the monarchy was finally defeated in the National Assembly in 1874.
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