Prince Henri of Orléans
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Marie-Françoise of Orléans |
Prince Henri of Orléans (16 October 1867 – 9 August 1901) was the son of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, and Princess Françoise of Orléans.
Biography
Henri, the second eldest son and third child of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, was born at Ham, London on 16 October 1867.[1]
In 1889, at the instance of his father, who paid the expenses of the tour, he undertook, in company with Gabriel Bonvalot and Father Constant de Deken (1852-1896), a journey through Siberia to French Indochina.[2] In the course of their travels they crossed the mountain range of Tibet and the fruits of their observations, submitted to the Geographical Society of Paris (and later incorporated in De Paris au Tonkin à travers le Tibet inconnu, published in 1892),[3][4] brought them conjointly the gold medal of that society.[5]
In 1892 the prince made a short journey of exploration in
While on a trip to
Duel
In 1897, in several articles for
The duel with swords, which lasted 26 minutes, took place at 5:00 am on 15 August 1897, in the Bois de Marechaux at Vaucresson, France. Vittorio Emanuele defeated Prince Henri after five reprises.[10] The "Monseigneur" Henri received a serious wound to his right abdomen, and the doctors of both parties considered the injury serious enough to put him in a state of obvious inferiority, causing the end of the duel, and making the Count of Turin famous in Europe.[11]
In popular culture
Literature
- ISBN 978-0692254097
Ancestry
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Notes
- ISSN 0037-9778.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 283–284.
- ^ Across Thibet (translation of De Paris au Tonkin à travers le Tibet inconnu by C. B. Pitman, 1891)
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911, p. 284.
- ^ "Prince Henri d'Orleans - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ Albert de Pouvourville, "L' Affaire de Siam; 1886 - 1896"
- ^ "UNIVERSE". Champagne HERITAGE - Prince Henri d'Orléans. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ "Un duello per l'Italia". Torino. 1952.
- ^ "Verbale dello scontro tra il Conte di Torino e il Principe Enrico d'Orléans". Torino. 1897.
- ^ "Prince Henri in a Duel". The New York Times. 17 August 1897. p. 9.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Orleans, Henri, Prince of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 283–284. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Henri of Orléans (1894). Around Tonkin and Siam. London: Chapman & Hall.