Antoine of Orleans (1775-1807)

Biography

He was high with his older brother, Louis-Philippe, duke of Chartres then duke of Orleans (1793), future king of the French, with whom he were linked by a deep affection. They were separate only during Terror and the events which followed, between 1793 and 1797.

In 1791, it was named second lieutenant in the regiment of his brother, then duke of Chartres, was said the “General Equality”, in the capacity as aide-de-camp It was named general adjudant before the Bataille of Jemmapes, in which it took part like his brother. In Paris at the time of the lawsuit of Louis XVI, it tried, but without success, to convince his/her father not to vote the death of the king. Then general adjudant with the army of the VAr, it was issued of arrest at the same time as all the Bourbons in April 1793 and was imprisoned with the Fort Midsummer's Day with Marseilles.

During its imprisonment, it contracted the Tuberculose which was to carry it. It also had a natural son named Dentend which was for this reason to become the notary of the house of Orleans (, it was charged to write the deed of gift of the personal goods of Louis-Philippe to his children right before his accession with the throne in 1830: V. the article Goods of the house of Orleans). The 13 fructidor year IV (August 30th 1796), the Directoire decided finally its widening and ordered that it is transferred to Philadelphia where the charg3e d' affaires of the French Republic to the the United States would pour to him an annual pension of 15.000 francs. It embarked on November 5th, 1796.

In February 1797, accompanied by his/her brother the count de Beaujolais, it joined his/her older brother with Philadelphia. During two years, they travelled in New England, in the area of the Big lakes and the the Mississippi. They returned to Europe in 1800 and settled in England with Twickenham (Highshot House, Crown Road, building destroy in 1927).

In 1807, the pulmonary Tuberculosis that it had contracted, just like the count of Beaujolais, knew an aggravation. The duke of Orleans wanted to take it along in the Devonshire so that it profited there from the good air but with twelve miles from Twickenham, they had to stop in an inn with Salthill (close to Windsor). He had a crisis of smothering, refused the ether which one wanted to manage to him, murmured with the address of his/her brother: “ Give me your hand, I thought I was dying ” (“ Gives me your hand, I believed that I would die ”) and expired.

Louis-Philippe made celebrate a funeral service with the catholic vault of King Street to London, to which Mister assisted, and obtained, thanks to the duke of Kent, which his/her brother had a burial with the Abbaye of Westminster.

Works

Relation of the captivity of S.A.S. Mgr the duke of Montpensier, during the years 1793,1794,1795 and 1796, written by itself , Twickenham, Printing works of G. White, 1816
Memories of S.A.S. Louis-Antoine-Philippe of Orleans, duke of Montpensier , Paris, Baudouin brothers, 1824 - text on www.gallica.fr

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