Author: De Flers, Marquis [ Hyacinthe, de Paule de la Motte Ango ] & Majendie, Constance [translator]
Title: Le Comte De Paris
Description: W H Allen, 1889, 1st English edition. Cloth, VG. xvi+358pp, engraved frontis, 5 engraved plates, folding facsimile, title foxed & with offsetting from the frontis, fore edges & folding plate foxed, damage to the front endpaper where a bookplate has been removed, cloth bright, a superior copy. Ex libris F A Harman Oates with his armorial bookplate & ink signature. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A biography of Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, Comte de Paris ( Prince Philippe, Count of Paris ) [ 1838 - 1894 ], grandson of KIng Louis Philippe I and a claimant to the French Throne from 1848 until his death. He lived at Sheen House, Surrey and his descendants continue to be the Orléanist claimants to the throne of France. Frederick Arthur Harman Oates was Keeper of the King's Armouries.

Keywords: biography, history, french history, royalty, orleans, french royalty