Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance

Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance was the wife of the applicant orleanist with the throne of France of 1940 with 1999. As such, it carried the title of courtesy of “countess of Paris” who was reproduced on his indentity card .

It was born with Have (Seine-Maritime), the August 13rd 1911, and died with Paris (16th district) the July 5th 2003. Its complete civil statue was Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Therese Jeanne of Orleans and Bragance. She was baptized with Have the August 15th 1911, with for godfather and godmother her grandparents paternal, Gaston of Orleans (1842-1922), count of Have and Isabelle de Bragance, princess heiress of Brazil (1846-1921).

Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance was the oldest daughter of the prince Pierre of Orleans-Bragance (1875-1940) and his wife, born countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz (1875-1951).

In 1931 it married his/her cousin Henri of Orleans (1908-1999), “count de Paris” with whom it had eleven children: the Isabelle princess (born in 1932), prince Henri (born in 1933), the Helene princess (born in 1934), prince François (1935-1960), the princess Anne (born in 1938), the Diane princess (born in 1940), princes Michel and Jacques (born in 1941), the princess Claude (born in 1943), the princess Chantal (born in 1946) and finally the prince Thibaut (1948-1983). It attempted to help her husband in his will to return the party orleanist nearer to the French. Thus it took an active part very in voyages in province after the law of end of exile of 1950.

As a widowed wife then of Henri of Orleans, Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance made use of the full weapons of France ( of azure with three flowers of gold lily), without the obligatory crack for the branches juniors.

As of the years 1970, the “countess of Paris” settled in a Parisian private mansion, property of the family of Orleans, remaining regularly in the Montpensier house at the bottom of the park of the castle of Have. Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance shared her time between her family, her multiple fashionable activities and requests, the writing and of many associations of which it was occupied with enthusiasm, the first of which the Association of the Friends of the Musée Louis-Philippe of the castle of Have, of which it was the president founder since 1985 and the literary prize Hugues Capet.

Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance published her memories in 1978 and 1981 and of the historical biographies like that of Blanche of Castille or Marie-Amélie, " queen of Français" , as well as autobiographical works like My happiness to be grandmother (1995) and the Album of my life (2002).

Internal bonds

See too

Association of the Friends of the Louis-Philippe Museum of the castle of, rested by Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance
Radioscopy of Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance Ina Files Tele

Works

Signed works “Isabelle, countess of Paris”

All is to me happiness (memories), Éditions Robert Laffont, “Lived” coll, Paris, 1978. 440 p. - p. of pl.; 24 cm. ISBN 2-221-00107-9.
Sunken lanes (memories, continuation of All is to me happiness ), Éditions Robert Laffont, “Lived” coll, Paris, 1981. 274 p. - p. of pl.; 24 cm. ISBN 2-221-00817-0.
White of Castille, my grandmother (biography), Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1991. 282 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 2-221-07093-3.
Me, Marie-Antoinette (biographical novel), Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1993. 237 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 2-221-07485-8.
the Marie-Amélie queen printed: grandmother of Europe (biography), Perrin Editions, Paris, 1998. 474 p. - p. of pl.; 23 cm. ISBN 2-262-01451-5.
the album of my life (memories, with the collaboration of Cyrille Boulay), Perrin Editions, coll “Memories of Gotha”, Paris, 2002. 111 p.; 29 cm. ISBN 2-262-01832-4.

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