Kingdom of Araucanie and Patagonie

The kingdom of Araucanie and Patagonie , sometimes called News-France was a Micronation which extended on territories belonging today to the Argentine and the Chile (in the south of the Río Biobío - in particular current the Chilean areas of Biobío, of Araucanie and of Los Lagos), asserted by the French Orllie- Antoine de Tounens, which managed to obtain the support of the natives Mapuches. Its capital was Perquenco. The sovereignty of this kingdom recognized forever by any State.

History

The Mapuches, or Araucans, were alive native-born people of agriculture and breeding. These savage combatants had always resisted the attempts at invasion of Incas, the Spaniards, and even of the Chilean government, which however managed to subject them by parking them in reserves after the operations of “pacification of Araucanie” carried out in 1880. Today, the majority of Mapuches live with Temuco, Santiago of Chile, but also on their ancestral grounds. They would be today 600.000 with the Chile and 300.000 in Argentine.

Antoine de Tounens unloaded in 1858 with the port of Coquimbo, and after having spent some time with Valparaiso and Santiago, it moved towards Araucanie starting from the port of Valdivia. It came into contact with the lonco (mapuche military chief) Quilapán, which was filled with enthusiasm for its project to found a State for the people mapuche, in order to be able to resist the Chilean army - the Guerre of Arauco made rage at the time. Quilapán granted to Orélie-Antoine a right-of-way on its grounds, whereas they were prohibited with the huincas (Chilean). Thus Orélie-Antoine could found, on November 17th, 1860, the kingdom of Araucanie, which it equipped with a constitution and of which it proclaimed king under the name of Orélie-Antoine I^er. Three days later, he issued the union of Araucanie and Patagonie, fixing like limits at his kingdom Rio Biobio and Rio Negro at north, the Pacific Ocean in the west, the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Magellan Strait in the south.

Expelled on several occasions by the Chilean authorities and Argentinas, Orélie-Antoine died in Tourtoirac (the Dordogne) on September 17th 1878.

All this constitutes an occasion lost by France to be established in Patagonie but the emperor Napoleon III was then engaged in the Expédition of Mexico (1861 - 1867).

Succession with the throne:

King Orllie-Antoine Ier (Antoine de Tounens), deceased with Tourtoirac (the Dordogne) on September 17th 1878;
King Achille Ier (Gustave Achilles Laviarde), deceased in Paris on March 16th 1902;
King Antoine II (Antoine-Hippolyte Cross-country race), deceased with Asnières on November 1st 1903;
Queen Laure-Therese I (Laure-Therese Cross-country race, wife Bernard; girl of Antoine II), deceased with Issy-les-Moulineaux on February 12th 1916;
King Antoine III (Jacques-Antoine Bernard; wire of Laure-Therese I), deceased in Paris on October 26th 1952;
Prince Philippe : Antoine III having given up his rights on May 12th 1951, the current one claiming with the throne is prince Philippe (Philippe Boiry), born in Paris on February 19th 1927.

Armando Braun Ménendez characterizes the reigns of the first kings of the dynasty “orélide” by calling them Orllie-Antoine Ier the Founder, Achille Ier the Diplomat and Antoine II the Philosopher.

August 1st 1984: the first forwarding with the Minquiers.

1991: the company Bi-Bop uses a Logo identical to the Drapeau of the Kingdom but its process disappears in 1993.

1998: the second forwarding with the Minquiers.

2006: the Kingdom of the Lesotho adopts a new flag close but distinct from that from the Kingdom from Araucanie and Patagonie.

The Company of the medal-holders of the Constellation

The order of the Constellation of the South remained in the form of a Société of the medal-holders of the Constellation of the South . This Company incarnates it also the continuity of the institutions while being devoted to the memory and philanthropy; it was still active the shortly after the Second world war.

Diplomatic representation

King Achille Ier the Diplomat had consuls in various towns of Europe which accepted the exequatur .

Today:

Jean Raspail, holds the functions of General consul in France without it being specified if it holds them of prince Philippe.
Its Excellence, Mr Michel Abbadie, Fisherman of Iceland and maritime Treasure hunter in Sea of Iroise, holds, since a pair of years, the functions of Honorary Consul in Poitou (France).

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