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NEMOURS, LOUIS CHARLES PHILIPPE RAPHAEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEMOURS, See also:LOUIS See also:CHARLES PHILIPPE See also:RAPHAEL , Duc DE (1814-1896), second son of the See also:duke of See also:Orleans, afterwards See also:King Louis Philippe, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:October 1814. At twelve years of See also:age he was nominated See also:colonel of the first See also:regiment of chasseurs, and in 183o he became a See also:chevalier of the See also:order of the See also:Saint Esprit and entered the chamber of peers. As See also:early as 1825 his name was mentioned as a possible See also:candidate for the See also:throne of See also:Greece, and in 1831 he was elected king of the Belgians, but See also:international considerations deterred Louis Philippe from accepting the See also:honour for his son. In See also:February 1831 he accompanied the See also:French See also:army which entered See also:Belgium to support the new See also:kingdom against See also:Holland, and took See also:part in the See also:siege of See also:Antwerp. He accompanied the Algerian expedition against the See also:town of See also:Constantine in the autumn of 1836, and in a second expedition (1837) he was entrusted with the command of a See also:brigade and with the direction of the siege operations before Constantine. See also:General Damremont was killed by his See also:side on the 12th of October, and the See also:place was taken by See also:assault on the 13th. He sailed a third See also:time for See also:Algeria in 1841, and served under General Bugeaud, taking part in the expedition to revictual See also:Medea on the 29th of See also:April, and in See also:sharp fighting near Miliana on the 3rd to 5th of May. In the expedition against the fortified town of Takdempt he commanded the 1st See also:infantry See also:division. On his return to See also:France he became commandant of the See also:camp of See also:Compiegne. He had been employed on See also:missions of See also:courtesy to See also:England in 1835, in 1838 and in 1845, and to See also:Berlin and See also:Vienna in 1836. The occasion of his See also:marriage in 184o with See also:Victoria, daughter of Duke See also:Ferdinand of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg, was marked by a check to Louis Philippe's See also:government in the See also:form of a refusal to bestow the marriage See also:dowry proposed by See also:Thiers in the chamber of deputies. The See also:death of his See also:elder See also:brother, Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, in 1842 gave him a position of greater importance as the natural See also:regent in the See also:case of the See also:accession of his See also:nephew, the See also:young See also:count of See also:Paris.

His reserve, and dislike of public functions, with a certain haughtiness of manner, how-ever, made him unpopular. On the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 be held the Tuileries See also:

long enough to See also:cover the king's See also:retreat, but refrained from initiating active See also:measures against the See also:mob. He followed his See also:sister-in-See also:law, the duchess of Orleans, and her two sons to the chamber of deputies, but was separated from them by the rioters, and only escaped finally by disguising himself in the See also:uniform of a See also:national guard. He embarked for England, where he settled with his parents at See also:Claremont. His See also:chief aim during his See also:exile, especially after his See also:father's death, was a re-conciliation between the two branches of the See also:house of See also:Bourbon, as indispensable to the re-See also:establishment of the French See also:monarchy in any form. These wishes were frustrated on the one See also:hand by the attitude of the See also:comte de See also:Chambord, and on the other by the determination of the duchess of Orleans to maintain the pretensions of the count of Paris. Nemours was prepared to go further than the other princes of his See also:family in accepting the principles of the See also:legitimists, but lengthy negotiations ended in 1857 with a See also:letter, written by Nemours, as he subsequently explained, at the dictation of his brother, See also:Francois, See also:prince de See also:Joinville, in which he insisted that Chambord should See also:express his adherence to the tricolour See also:flag and to the principles of constitutional government. In 1871 the Orleans princes renewed their professions of See also:allegiance to the See also:senior See also:branch of their house, but they were not consulted when the count of Chambord came to Paris in 1873, and their See also:political See also:differences remained until his death in 1883. Nemours had lived at Bushey House after the death of See also:Queen See also:Marie Amelie in 1866. In 1871 the exile imposed on the French princes was withdrawn, but he only transferred his establishment to Paris after their disabilities were also removed. In See also:March 187 2 he was restored to his See also:rank in the army as general of division, and placed in the first See also:section of the general See also:staff. After his retirement from the active See also:list he continued to See also:act as See also:president of the Red See also:Cross Society until 188r, when new decrees against• the ,princes of the See also:blood led to his withdrawal from Parisian society.

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presidency of See also:Marshal See also:MacMahon, he had appeared from time to time at the Elysee. He died at See also:Versailles on the 26th of See also:June 1896, the duchess having died at Claremont on the loth of See also:November 1857. Their See also:children were Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston, comte d'Eu (b. 1842), who married See also:Isabella, eldest daughter of See also:Don Pedro II. of See also:Brazil; Ferdinand Philippe Marie, duc d'See also:Alencon (b. 1844), who married Sophie of See also:Bavaria (1847—1897), sister of the empress See also:Elizabeth of See also:Austria; See also:Margaret (1846-1893), who married Prince Ladislas See also:Czartoryski; and See also:Blanche (b. 1857). See R. See also:Bazin, Le Duc de Nemours (1907) ; See also:Paul Thureau-Dangin, Histoire de la monarchie de juillet (4 vols., 1884, &c.).

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