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AUMALE, HENRI EUGENE PHILIPPE LOUIS

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AUMALE, See also:HENRI See also:EUGENE PHILIPPE See also:LOUIS D'See also:ORLEANS, Duc D' (1822-1897), See also:French See also:prince and statesman, fifth son of Louis Philippe, See also:duke of Orleans, afterwards See also:king of the French, and of See also:Marie Amelie, princess of the Two Sicilies, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 16th of See also:January 1822. While still See also:young he inherited a large See also:fortune from the prince de See also:Conde. Brought up by his parents with See also:great simplicity, he was educated at the See also:college of Henri IV., on leaving which at the See also:age of seventeen he entered the See also:army with the See also:rank of a See also:captain of See also:infantry. He distinguished himself during the See also:conquest of See also:Algeria, and was appointed See also:governor of that See also:colony, in which capacity he received the submission of the See also:amir Abd-el-Kader. After the revolution of 1848 he retired to See also:England and busied himself with See also:historical and military studies, replying in 1861 by a See also:Letter upon the See also:History of See also:France to Prince See also:Napoleon's violent attacks upon the See also:house of Orleans. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian See also:War he volunteered for service in the French army, but his offer was declined. Elected See also:deputy for the See also:Oise See also:department, he returned to France, and succeeded to the fauteuil of the See also:comte de See also:Montalembert in the French See also:Academy. In See also:March 1872 he resumed his See also:place in the army as See also:general of See also:division; and in 1873 he presided over the See also:court-See also:martial which condemned See also:Marshal See also:Bazaine to See also:death. About this See also:period, being appointed commandant of the VII. army See also:corps at See also:Besancon, he retired from See also:political See also:life, and in 1879 became inspector-general of the army. By the See also:act of exception passed in 1883 all members of families that had reigned in France serving in the army were deprived of their military positions; consequently the due d'Aumale was placed on the unemployed supernumerary See also:list. Subsequently, in 1886, another See also:law was promulgated which expelled from French territory the heads of former reigning families, and provided that henceforward all members of those families should be disqualified for any public position or See also:function, and for See also:election to any public See also:body. The due d'Aumale protested energetically, and was himself expelled.

By his will of the 3rd of See also:

June 1884, however, he had bequeathed to the See also:Institute of France his See also:Chantilly See also:estate, with all the See also:art-collection he had gathered there. This generosity led the See also:government to withdraw the See also:decree of See also:exile, and the duke returned to France in 1889. ' See also:Pollux iv. 74. Servius ad Aen. ix. 615. e See also:Tibullus ii. 85; Virg. Aen. xi. 735; See also:Ovid, Met. iii. 533, Ex Ponto i. 1.

39. He died at Zucco in See also:

Sicily on the 7th of May 1897. Of his See also:marriage, contracted in 1844 with his first See also:cousin, See also:Caroline de See also:Bourbon, daughter of the prince of See also:Salerno, were born two sons: the prince de Conde (d. 1866), and the duc de See also:Guise (d. 1872). The duc d'Aumale's See also:principal See also:literary See also:work was an Histoire See also:des princes de Conde, which he See also:left unfinished. See Georges Picot, M. le duc d'Aumale (Paris, 1898) ; Ernest See also:Daudet, Le duc d'Aumale (Paris, 1898). (M.

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