Louis-Philippe-Albert d’Orléans, comte de Paris
1838–94
French nobleman. Pretender to the French throne. Grandson of the French king Louis Philippe I; heir apparent from 1842. Fled France for England after the abdication of Louis Philippe and the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1848. Served with the federal armies in the American Civil War, 1861–2, and wrote a seven-volume account of the conflict. Returned to France, 1871; withdrew his claim to the French throne in favour of Henri d’Artois, comte de Chambord, in 1873. On the death of Chambord in 1883, attempted a monarchist revival, which resulted in his exile to England from 1886 until his own death.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
