Prince François, Count of Clermont

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Prince François of Orléans
Born(1961-02-07)7 February 1961
Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg
Styles of
Prince François
Reference style
His Royal Highness
Spoken styleYour Royal Highness

Prince François of Orléans, Count of Clermont (François Henri Louis Marie; 7 February 1961 – 30 December 2017) was the eldest son and

Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg. He was thus the Dauphin of France in Orleanist reckoning.[1] However, his mother had been infected with toxoplasmosis during her second and third pregnancies, and the pre-natal exposure left both Prince François and his younger sister, Princess Blanche, developmentally disabled.[1]

His godparents were Henri, Count of Paris (paternal grandfather) and Duchess Rosa of Württemberg (maternal grandmother).

François was about two or three months old, according to his father (then styled Count of Clermont as Orleanist heir-apparent), before the family realized that he had a disability.

Chateau d'Eu where she taught him to walk when he was four or five.[1]

In 1981 his grandfather, the Count of Paris, having declared Clermont deprived of his

regency to exercise the dynastic prerogative on François's behalf, to become effective upon the succession of François as claimant.[1] In 2016 Jean declared that his father's appointment of a regency council was invalid and, having become his elder brother's legal guardian, promised to continue to care for him while also called for François "to be left in peace and not used."[1]

On 31 December 2017 Prince Jean reported that after suffering a bad fall the previous day, François had died.[1] Henri subsequently recognized Jean as "the Dauphin", father and son publicly embracing at the interment of François at the Chapelle royale de Dreux on 6 January 2018 following a funeral service attended by his parents, siblings and other members of family, as well as members of reigning and deposed dynasties.[1]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Prince François d'Orléans: Il aurait dû être Dauphin de France". Point de Vue: 30–39. 2018.

Further reading


Prince François, Count of Clermont
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 7 February 1961 Died: 30 December 2017
Titles in pretence
Preceded by — TITULAR —
Dauphin of France
19 June 1999 – 30 December 2017 		Succeeded by

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