Jean, Count of Paris
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| Head of the House of Orléans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tenure | 21 January 2019 – present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Henri, Count of Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Heir apparent | Gaston | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1965 Boulogne-Billancourt, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Philomena de Tornos Steinhart (m. 2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans (born 19 May 1965) is the current head of the Legitimism and Bonapartism, most royalists are Orléanists.[3] Jean is the second son of the late Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019) and his former wife Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg (b. 1934). With the death of his father, he has been using the style of Count of Paris since 2019.[4]
BiographyEarly life and educationJean d'Orléans was born on 19 May 1965 in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Henri of Orleans and Maria Theresa of Württemberg. He was baptized in the Catholic Church on 14 June 1965 in the Royal Chapel of Dreux. He received as godfather, his maternal uncle, Carl of Württemberg, and as godmother, his paternal aunt, Princess Chantal of Orleans.[5] After attending the Passy-Saint-Nicolas-Buzenval, a private Catholic secondary school, he attended the Los Angeles, California.[5]
Jean completed his officer aspirant, and then as a second lieutenant, and has been a reserve colonel of the French Army since January 2015.[6]
After finishing his military duties, he began to work as a consultant at Lazard, then as a financial consultant at Deloitte, followed by working as a project manager at the Groupe Banque Populaire. Jean is multilingual, speaking French, English, and German.[7] First engagementPrince Jean was due to marry Duchess Tatjana of Eilika married Archduke Georg of Austria in 1997. However, the wedding was cancelled at the last moment because of a dispute over religious denomination: Jean's father, Henri, feared the Orléans claim to the throne would be compromised if there were to be a Protestant heir.[9]
Second engagement and marriageOn 29 November 2008, Henri, then Count of Paris, announced the engagement of Jean, the then Duke of Vendôme, to Maison Lesage.[12]
LawsuitIn 2021, Jean filed a lawsuit against the Saint-Louis foundation, demanding €1 million in damages and the return of five properties, including the Château d'Amboise. In 1886, the château was bequeathed to the Institute of France by Jean's ancestor Henri d’Orléans, with the caveat that the property would never be altered by the institute. The Saint-Louis foundation was later founded by Jean's grandfather, Henri VI, Count of Paris, in 1974. Jean's lawsuit alleges that the Institute violated their contract to never alter the property, after they announced plans to transform the Pavillon d’Enghien into a €760-a-night luxury hotel, containing a spa and gastronomic restaurant.[13] Jean had previously lived in the château from 2001 to September 2021 rent-free, but was forcefully evicted by the institute after they began to demand he pay rent, which Jean viewed as a violation of their contract.[14] FamilyJean and his wife Philomena have six children:
PoliticsJean believes that the people of France are "monarchist at heart" and argues that they long for a non-partisan figurehead.[17] He has spoken in support of the Yellow vests protests in France.[18] Jean has also expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage, having participated in the La Manif pour tous protests, as well as abortion.[19][20] In May 2019, Jean met with French President Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron, and Italian President Sergio Mattarella in his then-home in the Château d'Amboise.[21] Titles, styles and honoursTitles in pretense
He was created Following the death of his father, it was initially thought that Prince Jean would not assume the title of Count of Paris for several months after his father's death, and possibly not for as much as one year.[24] HonoursNational
Dynastic
AncestryJean is a direct male-line descendant of .
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References
- ^ "Portrait du prince Jean". gensdefrance.com (in French).
- ^ "Henri d'Orléans, pretender to French throne, dies". RFI. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ O'Reilly, Edward (24 January 2019). "Did You Know? The Tale of the three Frenchmen who still lay claim to the throne". The Local. Stockholm. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ Le Prince - website Le Comte de Paris
- ^ a b Philippe de Montjouvent. Le comte de Paris et sa descendance, éditions du Chaney. p. 215.
- ^ Gotha Almanac, John James, Earl of Tara, 2019
- ^ "The Prince".
- ^ "Tatjana, Herzogin von Oldenburg : Genealogics".
- ^ Schofield, Hugh (12 June 2001). "Royal wedding plans suffer a hitch". BBC News. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
- ^ "Naissance du prince Joseph d'Orléans". 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Jean d'Orlean and Philomena de Tornos to have secind". Hellomagazine.com. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
- ^ "Fashion Scoops: The Next Halston?… Something Lacroix…". wwd.com. 4 May 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
- ^ Thackray, Lucy (7 December 2021). "French aristocrat demands return of family château destined to become hotel". The Independent.
- ^ Cope, Rebecca (9 February 2021). "Pretender to the French throne, Jean d'Orleans, wants his châteaux (plural) back". Tatler.
- ^ "Une nouvelle princesse est née à Dreux" [A new princess was born in Dreux]. L'Écho Républicain (in French). 12 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Monarchies et Dynasties du monde [@Monarchies2000] (31 December 2023). "The birth of Prince Alphonse is announced by his family" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Chazan, David (3 February 2019). "Two 'princes' locked in battle to succeed Henri d'Orleans as 'official' pretender to French throne". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020.
- ^ Jean d'Orléans (13 December 2018). "Le Prince Jean de France: "Gilets Jaunes : Bâtir un projet commun"". Archived from the original on 17 April 2019.
- ^ Bellerive, Pierre de (21 March 2013). "Le Prince Jean de France à la Manif Pour Tous". Archived from the original on 21 September 2020.
- ^ Jean d'Orléans. Un Prince français. p. 111.
- ^ Jean, Count of Paris [@PJComtedeParis] (2 May 2019). "Le prince Gaston salue le Président de la République dans la cour du château royal d'#Amboise" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 11 July 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ ISBN 2-913211-00-3..
- ^ Official website
- ^ "Disparition - Le Comte de Paris s'éteint et laisse la maison de France au prince Jean". lechorepublicain.fr (in French). 21 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ISBN 9780993372582.
- ^ "Heir to the French Throne and former French Minister invested into the Order - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George". Constantuinian.org.uk. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
External links
- Official website (in French)
- Duke of Vendôme Jean d'Orléans stakes his claim to French throne, The Times, 10 October 2009.
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