Orleans, Ferdinand Philip Louis Charles Henry
ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, Duke of (1810-1842), born at Palermo on the 3rd of September 1 8 10, was the son of Louis Phihppe, duke of Orleans, afterwards king of France, and Marie Amehe, princess of the Two Sicilies. Under the Restoration he bore the title of duke of Chartres, and studied classics in Paris at the College Henri IV. At the outbreak of the Revolution, which in 1830 set his father on the throne, he was colonel of a regiment of Hussans. He then assumed the title of duke of Orleans, and was sent by the king to Lyons to put down the formidable riots which had broken out there (1831), and then to the siege of Antwerp (1832). He was appointed lieutenant-general, and made several campaigns in Algeria (1835, 1830, 1840). On his return to France he organized the battalions of light infantry known as the chasseurs d'Orleans. He died as the result of a carriage accident at NeuiUy, near Paris, on the 13th of July 1842.
The duke of Orleans had married (May 30, 1837) Helene Louise Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and had by her two sons, the count of Paris and the duke of Chartres. On the 24th of February 1848, after the abdication of Louis Phihppe, the duchess of Orleans went to the Chamber of Deputies assembled in the Palais Bourbon in the hope of having her eldest son proclaimed and of obtaining the regency; but the threatening attitude of the populace forced her to flee. She took refuge in England, and died at Richmond on the 1Sth of May 1858.
(M. P.*)
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
