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Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans (born 19 May 1965) is the current head of the House of Orléans.Jean is the senior male descendant by primogeniture in the male-line of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and thus according to the Orléanists the legitimate claimant to the defunct throne of France as Jean IV. [2]
These Old Shades is a 1926 historical romance written by British novelist Georgette Heyer.The novel is set around 1755: Heyer refers to the Duke of Avon's participation in the 1745 uprising as ten years previous; in addition the Prince of Condé is said to be about 20 years old.
Over the next three years, Jean and Marguerite de Carrouges had two more children and settled in Paris and Normandy, profiting from their celebrity with gifts and investments. [46] In 1390, Carrouges was promoted to a chevalier d'honneur as a bodyguard of the King, a title which came with a substantial financial stipend and was a position of ...
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (French pronunciation: [lwi də ʁuvʁwa]; 16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist.He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain).
The Duke died, aged only 32, on 28 June 1880 while in Athens, Greece. After his death, his widow remarried to the reigning Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889, becoming the Princess consort of Monaco. [9] [10] She died in Paris in 1925. [11] The dukedom of Richelieu became extinct in 1952 upon the death of their son. [5]
Coat of arms of the Counts of Longueville Coat of arms of the d'Enghien family. Jean d'Orléans, Count of Dunois (23 November 1402 – 24 November 1468), known as the "Bastard of Orléans" (French: bâtard d'Orléans) or simply Jean de Dunois, was a French military leader during the Hundred Years' War who participated in military campaigns with Joan of Arc. [1]
He was used to pass on orders calling for the seizure and transport to Paris of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, the Duke of Enghien. Once in Paris the Duke of Enghien was tried for treason by a military tribunal and summarily executed. Caulaincourt, an aristocrat, had been used as a means to deliver a fellow aristocrat to his death.
Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright.