The New Student's Reference Work/Aumale, Duc d'

Aumale (dō′ mȧl′) (Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans), Duc d’, fourth son of Louis Philippe of France and a general of note in the French army, was born in Paris, January 16, 1822, and died in Sicily, May 7, 1897. When a youth he took part in campaigns in Algeria, of which he became governor-general. When the Revolution of 1848 broke out, he resigned his post and joined his exiled father and the Orleanist princes in England, until the law banishing royalty was repealed in 1871. The duke then returned to France, was made a general, and president of the council of war in which capacity he tried and condemned Marshal Bazaine. Later on, a new expulsion bill passed the French legislature in 1886, and he was banished until the revocation of the measure in 1889. Meanwhile, and in spite of the decree of banishment, the Duc d’Aumale bequeathed his beautiful chateau of Chantilly, with its fine art treasures, to the French nation.