Princes Carlo Emanuele and Clotilde...
Although the marriage was arranged, Clotilde and Carlo Emanuele worked to develop their relationship and were soon very much in love with each other and remained devoted to one another all their lives. They would endure exile and grave suffering because of the French invasion that destroyed the Kingdom of Sardinia, but were sustained by their faith in God. Both became Third Order Dominicans. During their exile, they lived in Napoli, were Clotilde died in 1802. At the death of his wife, Carlo Emanuele IV renounced the throne in favor of his younger brother Vittorio Emanuele I. He entered the Company of Jesus in 1814 and died in Rome in 1819. Clotilde was declared Venerable by Pope Pius VII in 1808: the cause of beatification in in process.