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BERRIEN BERRY 581 appeared in 1796-1803, and the last in 4 vols. large 8vo, 1836. BERRIEN. I. A S. county of Georgia, bound- ed E. by the Alapaha river, which crosses the N. E. corner, and W. by Little river, and drained also by the Withlacoochee ; area, 750 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,518, of whom 460 were colored. In 1870 it produced 76,976 bushels of Indian corn, 41,184 of oats, 55,875 of sweet potatoes, 671 bales of cotton, 19,016 Ibs. of wool, and 119,462 of rice. There were 636 horses, 3,682 milch cows, 6,951 other cattle, 7,016 sheep, and 13,529 swine. Capital, Nash- ville. H. A S.W. county of Michigan, bordering on Indiana and Lake Michigan ; area, 600 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 35,104. It is drained by the St. Joseph's, Pawpaw, and Galien rivers. The surface is undulating, and the soil near the St. Joseph's consists of a deep, black, sandy loam, overgrown with thick forests of hard timber. The Michigan Central and the Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore railroads pass through the county. The chief productions in 1870 were 450,809 bushels of wheat, 469,705 of In- dian corn, 178,217 of oats, 282,503 of potatoes, 27,054 tons of hay, 90,769 Ibs. of wool, and 548,959 of butter. There were 6,448 horses, 5,967 milch cows, 7,004 other cattle, 26,118 sheep, and 16,525 swine. Capital, Berrien Springs, on the St. Joseph's, 8 m. N. W. of Niles, the largest town. BERRIE, John Jlatpherson, an American law- yer and statesman, born in New Jersoy, Aug. 23, 1781, died in Savannah, Ga., Jan. 1, 1856. He was the son of an officer in the war of the revolution, and early acquired distinction as a lawyer in Georgia. He was solicitor of the eastern district of Georgia in 1809, and judge of the same district from 1810 to 1822, when he became a member of the Georgia senate, from which he was transferred in 1824 to the senate of the United States, where he estab- lished a high reputation as an orator and statesman. He was appointed attorney gen- eral of the United States in 1829, but resigned that office in 1831 when Gen. Jackson's cabinet became inharmonious. In 1840 he was elected again to the national senate as a whig, and was reflected in 1846, finally retiring in 1852. BERRY, or Berri, a former province of France, nearly in the centre, now forming the depart- ments of Indre and Cher, and small portions of those of Loire-et-Cher and Creuse. Capital, Bourges. It included most of the ancient ter- ritory of the Bituriges, the chief people of Celtic Gaul, was under Roman rule till near the end of the 5th century, and was wrested by Clovis in 507 from the Visigoths, who had invaded it, after which the local rulers were military chiefs or counts. Under Charles the Bald the province became a hereditary county, and was ruled by the counts of Bourges until about 1100, when the last of them, Arpin, sold the fief to Philip I. It remained thenceforward in possession of princes and princesses of the royal blood, first as a county, and after 1360 as a duchy, till 1601, when on the death of the widow of Henry III. it was definitively merged in the French crown. Since then the nominal title of duke of Berry has been given to a grandson of Louis XIV., to Louis XVI. while he was dauphin, and to Charles Ferdinand, son of Charles X. Berry suifered much during the wars with Eng- land and the religious wars. See ffistoire du Berry, by Raynal (Paris, 1844-'7). BERRY, or Berri. I. Marie Louise Elisabeth, duchess of, born Aug. 20, 1695, died at Marly, July 21, 1719. She was a daughter of Philippe d'Orl^ans, afterward regent of France, and married in 1710 Charles, duke of Berry, grand- son of Louis XIV., after whose suspiciously sudden death in 1714 she secretly married one of her many lovers, made no longer a se- cret of her incest with her own father, and died from an illness which she contracted while giv- ing to him a great entertainment, though barely recovered from her confinement, which she had attempted to conceal. St. Simon describes her as an ambitious Messalina, and she was so de- praved that she was even accused of many crimes of which she was probably innocent. II. Charles Ferdinand, duke of, the second son of the count d'Artois, afterward Charles X., born in Versailles, Jan. 24, 1778, died in Pa- ris, Feb. 14, 1820. He emigrated with his father in 1789, and served in the army of Cond6 till 1798, when he went to Russia, and in 1801 to England, where he contracted a se- cret marriage (which was afterward cancelled) with an English woman, who bore him two children. He was favorably received in France on landing at Cherbourg in 1814, afterward accompanied Louis XVIII. to Ghent, and made Paris his home after the final overthrow of Na- poleon. He was stabbed by a saddler named Lonvel, a political fanatic, on leaving the opera with his wife, and died next morning, after having in vain solicited the pardon of his mur- derer, who was foiled in his avowed purpose of extinguishing the race of the Bourbons by the birth seven months afterward of the duke of Bordeaux. (See BOTTEBON.) III. Marie Caroline Ferdlnande Lonise, duchess of, wife of the preced- ing, born in Palermo, Nov. 6, 1798, died near Gratz, April 7, 1870. She was a daughter of Francis I., king of the Two Sicilies, and of Ma- ria Clementina, archduchess of Austria. Louis XVIII. arranged her marriage with his nephew the duke of Berry, which was celebrated in Paris on June 18, 1816. In 1819 she gave birth to a daughter, Louise Marie Therese, who be- came duchess of Parma, and died in 1864. After the assassination of her husband (Feb. 13, 1820), she gave birth (Sept. 29) to Henri, duke of Bordeaux, afterward known as the count de Chambord. She became very popular in Paris by her affable manners, and especially by her fondness for theatres and brilliant social enter- tainments. On the outbreak of the revolu- tion of 1830 she was restrained by Charles X. from insisting upon the claims of her son to the throne, and she followed the Bourbon family