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 582 BERRY into exile. In 1831 she went to Sestri, but at the request of the king of Sardinia left his ter- ritory and proceeded to Modena and thence to Rome. She afterward went to Massa, where she engaged in a conspiracy for the restoration of the elder Bourbon line in the person of her son. At Massa she is said to have first met the count Ettore de Lucchesi-Palli, a Neapolitan diplomatist, with whom she contracted a se- cret morganatic marriage. In April, 1832, she effected a landing near Marseilles, and on the failure of the legitimist attempt in that city, she succeeded in reaching La Vendee in dis- guise with a few attendants. The attempted rising there having ended disastrously, she barely escaped to Nantes (June 9), where she found an asylum which was disclosed to M. Thiers by Simon Deutz, a converted Jew, who had gained her confidence at Rome. She was arrested on Nov. 6, after having concealed her- self for 24 hours behind a chimney at the risk of suffocation. From Nantes she was sent as a prisoner of state to the citadel of Blaye. The alleged illegality of these summary proceedings created some public excitement, which was increased by the reports of her advanced state of pregnancy. The commander of the citadel, Col. Ohousserie, resigning on account of the private instructions which he had received from the government in respect to her treat- ment, he was succeeded by Gen. Bugeaud, who made her publicly avow her secret mar- riage. She gave birth to a daughter, May 10, 1833, and was released on June 8 and convey- ed to Palermo. She visited Charles X. at Gorz, but was not favorably received, and the educa- tion of the duke of Bordeaux was intrusted to other hands. She subsequently resided in Venice, and after 1864 at her chateau of Brun- see, near Gratz, where she attended to the ed- ucation of her four surviving children by her second husband, who inherited the title of Duke della Grazia and died April 1, 1864. The fine picture gallery of the duchess was sold by public auction in Paris in 1865. BERRY, Mary, an English writer, born in Yorkshire in 1762, died in London, Nov. 20, 1852. She and her elder sister AGNES (who had much artistic talent, and died in May, 1851) became acquainted in 1787 with Horace Wai- pole, who called them his two little wives. Mary vindicated him in the "Edinburgh Re- view " against the criticisms of Macaulny, and she, her sister, and their father, a gentleman of wealth, were his literary executors, and in 1797 published an edition of his works in 5 vols. Mary Berry published her own works, "England and France," "Life of Rachel, Lady Russell," and a comedy entitled "Fashionable Friends," in 2 vols. in 1844. Lady Theresa Lewis edited in 1866 " Life and Correspon- dence of Miss Mary Berry." BERRYER, Antoine Pierre, a French advocate and statesman, born in Paris, Jan. 4, 1790, died at his country seat near Angerville, Nov. 29, 1868. His ancestors were from Lorraine, BERRYER and their original name was Mittelberger. Ho was one of three sons of Pierre Nicolas Ber- ryer, an eminent lawyer. He was educated for the church in the school of the Oratorians at Juilly; but his father induced him to be- come a lawyer, and after serving for a time in an attorney's office, he made his debut at the Paris bar early in 1811. In the same year he married Mile. Gautier, the daughter of a Paris official. In 1814 he proclaimed at Rennes the deposition of Napoleon, and hoisted the legiti- mist flag, to which he remained faithful till his death, though he was a man of liberal ideas and a decided opponent of all arbitrary measures. He assisted his father in conducting the de- fence of Ney, and obtained the acquittal of Cambronne and the pardon of Debelle. His practice now increased steadily. His imposing presence enhanced the effect of his oratory, and his eloquence has been described as almost equal in power to that of Mirabeau. In 1820 he defended Lamennais against a charge of atheism. Elected to the chambers in 1830 by a large majority, his first great speech was a denunciation of the unconstitutional character of the famous address of the 221. The July revolution did not interrupt his parliamentary career, though he continued to be the cham- pion of the legitimists. He took the oath of allegiance to Louis Philippe's government, but never ceased to embarrass it. In 1832 he was arrested as an accomplice of the duchess of Berry; but it was shown that he had en- deavored to stop her expedition, and the charge was abandoned. He defended Chateau- briand from a similar charge,- and exerted himself in vain for the liberation of the duch- ess. His political career interfering with his professional labors, he was involved in pecu- niary difficulties, and a public subscription of 400,000 francs was raised for him in 1836. In the chambers his renown was increased by his powerful speeches in opposition to the press laws of September, 1835, the measure against associations, and the Pritchard indem- nity bill (1845); but he was censured for hav- ing paid homage to the count de Chambord in London (1843). In 1840 he was one of the counsel for the defence of Louis Napoleon after the Boulogne expedition. On the revolution of 1848 he became the chief of the legitimist faction which was opposed to universal suf- frage, adhering to the cause of the count de Chambord and the doctrine of divine right. On the morning after Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat (Dec. 2, 1851) he appeared at the mairie of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, and voted in favor of the deposition of the prince-presi- dent. In 1852 he was elected to the academy of sciences. In 1858 he defended Montalembert in a celebrated speech, and subsequently he was counsel for the Patterson-Bonapartes in the great suit for the recognition of the Baltimore marriage. He kept aloof from politics till 1863, when he was reelected to the chambers with Thiers. He took sides with the federal