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THE DCKES DE BERRI.

The following is an extract from a small
poLlisbed in Pamir, entitled "i:n Historical Itehr.
lion of the L)ukes rte Berri:"

MISTORICAL DOCUMFN T RELATING TO TIIE
PRIMA'S DE DERR%

A sort of fatality seems•to be attached to the Princes who
hate borne the lids of Duke de Berri. Twelve Posters of
ibis name figure in the liistiory of Fritter, and almost all of
Atm closed their lives in no unfortunate mummer, and with-
out lowing behind them oily mole posterity.
The Berri, of which the city of Bootees was the capital,
was prispied by the ancient C. duxes, inhabitants of Gaul,
std form loot time formidable to the Romans.
The list Cobol lie Berri, Ilarpiu of Aquitaine, cull his
&main.' in 1094 to King Philip I. for the purpose of join-
ing the hest Crowitle. He was taken prim-now by the Si.
TSCrrIS, but !Wiped nod et-turned to France, and for waul
or ally means or Rapport, became a monk.
Plolip, the father of Louis VI. called the Fat, who (Iva
freest the commons from the insupportable yoke of the
Leeds, I.olllllllllkbA during the whole of his reign by the ii.
et.mmtoitications of the Court of Rome soul the Bishops, who
Monterol his subjects from their oaths of fidelity.
It was .not vul,l the year 1364, eight years after the de-
plorable battle of Puictiers, and four years after the shame-
fed Treaty of Breligny, that King John, delivered 1
• erected Berri ioto a Duchy, and gave tin title of it to
Joie, the third of his children who is reposenteol in huskily
we
the tyrant of Languedoc and Guyrope, which were tooter
hi• goversinwat.
This Doke ,le Berri, who was very eager its the pursuit
of wrath. one of the uncles of Citadel VI. disputed the
regency with !,is two brothers timing the minority of this
Police, mid tottered into the disastrous opeafortli of the
Meusr• of linrgemoly mod Orleans at the time of Charles's
insanity.
The Constable Gillum, and the Admiral John of Vienna,
had eoared o formidable expedition against Coglanul. whorls
wail defeated by John Duke .le Berri, who hail been posed
over by money from Richard It.
Mut. boat Doke de Berri, (licit, after several disgrace',
the 151 h of June, "without leafing any male kalif'. He left
o *idiot. By a former marriage he had three sous, who all
is infancy.
The fourth iron of the unfortunrite Charles VI. and then
stymie! Dolphin; hail borne the title of Dike de Berri. lie
died, poi...riled, rot Compiegne, April 5, Mei, stool the
fatheudn-law of Charles VII. who became Denpluin by his
do ails, was suspected of the
Chao les VII. before being Rillphin, had also been Duke
de Berri. Of all those who have heroic this title for the
space of SOt . years, lie is the only one who left moos. One
of the "one wits Loons Xl. who revolted against Isis fa-
ther, and who inspired how with so great an aversion, that
Chao Ins startled himself to die wills hoaxer, in 1461, from
the fear of hiring poisoned by the agents of his sun. Janne..
guy du Chastel, Grated Master of mise Equerry, was the only
soh. r who bad the courage to discharge the fonerml repeaters
s.f the King, and Louis Xl. to reward him for this, deprived
hint of his office.
Ibc other son, Charier, the brother of lonia XI. was
Duke de Berri. The leamie for the public good *loch was
formed by the' Lords wlw iisd been dirtied out of office by
the two king, strew dos Duke tie Berri into a civil war, in
which fur the first time we find the Swiss engaged, who we
taken into pay by the revolters
In 1472, Louis XI. teemed his becOlber and his mistress to
be poisoned by the eunftwor of that Prince.
Louis Xl. gave the title of Doke she Berri to his fourth
41111.1, Fiancip:who died is his minority in 1473.
Drury 111. gave to FS-Shlrill Duke d'Alencon the Ditch; of
Nem. Catharnie de Medic's, his mother, detested* Lim.
She caused lons to let sneered tall or three time, illlll
it n
thought that she finally csueed him to be poisoned by one of
his mistresses isi 1587.
11w thirst RAM of the great D 5141114111, the only son of Louie
burn in 1610,104 i summed Charle', was Duke tie Burn.
Ile did himself tumour tot the campaign of 1709, nod in the
year 1702 he had the inisferotne to wound the Doke of
Bourbon while hunting, and to deprive him of an eye.--
Charles de Berri shed in 1714, in consequence of a fall trails
his horse, mhuch happened some 11:111 before, while he is-at
hurting, an amusement of which lie was fond. Ile did nit
complais of this accident for fear of alarming Louis XIV.
His three children, one of which was Charles de Berri, died
soon after their birth.
At the moment of his death this grandson of Louis XIV.
refused the spiritual assistance of lather La Rue, a ham I,
as the Duke of Burgundy, his brother, had dune, and Ow
Dauphines, his sister, whin died in 1711.
Louis XVI. of umfortunate memory, hail borne the title of
Duke de Berri, before the death of she Daupliiii, hie lather.
The two male children of this sufortuuste Prince lived but
a short
Pisan', the Duke de Berri, who fell in 1820 tinder the
dagger of an assassin, was out able to triumph over the de-
plorable fatality attached to the title which he bore.

The 14th light dragoons expect their route of
march from this city (Canterhur,) in the course
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