HISTORY - D'ORLEANS Philippe (1869 - 1926) - Visiting card signed
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Eldest son of Comte de Paris, head of the House of France. Exiled to Switzerland, in 1890 he went to Paris to be recruited. He was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison. The same happened in 1914. He then gave up politics and devoted himself to his newspaper L'Action Française. He died of pneumonia in Palermo. He had married Archduchess Marie-Dorothée of Austria in 1896, but had no children.Visiting card signed Philippe.