Thibaut Louis Denis Humbert Marie of Orleans , “Wire of France” and “ count of Walk ”, was born with Sintra, with the Portugal, on September 20th 1948, and is deceased with Bamangui, in Central Africa, on March 23rd, 1983. It is a prince of royal blood and a writer French.

Family

Prince Thibaut of Orleans is the last of five wire and the eleven children of the prince Henri of Orleans (1908-1999), count de Paris and applicant orleanist with the throne of France, and his wife the free-Brazilian princess Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance (1911-2003).

Its godfathers are the king Humbert II of Italy and the queen Amélie of Portugal.

Against the opinion of his father, the prince marries, on September 23rd, 1972, with Edinburgh, in Scotland, the commoner chileno-British Marion Gordon-Orr (1941), girl of James Gordon-Orr and of its wife Mercedes Devia. From this union are born two boys, of which one dies in the cradle:

• Robert of Orleans (1976), count of Walk.
• Louis-Philippe of Orleans (1979-1980).

Biography

Called “P' tit beautiful” by its family, the future count of Walk, like his/her brothers and sisters, is deeply marked by the cold and authoritative character of his/her father, the count of Paris.

While growing, the prince marks his opposition to the applicant by building a pace of rebel (with long hair and moustache “with the guerillas”), while taking part in the events of May 1968 then by marrying a 7 year old commoner older than him. This last gesture particularly puts in anger the count of Paris which then declares the future descent of Thibaut of Orleans “not dynaste” and moves away this last from the remainder of its family.

The marriage of prince Thibaut and Marion Gordon-Orr is however initially a happy union. It is about a love match and the two husbands make watch of a strong complicity. But as one did not see only love and of fresh water and that the count of Paris refuses to help his son financially, two young people launch out in various artistico-financial projects which are unequal successes. Thus, between 1973 and 1974, the count and the countess of Walk publish a series of historical novels which know, at the time, a certain best-seller. But, later, the couple opens an art gallery, street of Nesle, with Saint-Germain-of-Near, and this one is not long in going bankrupt.

However, to the money worries the painful loss of the second child of the couple is added which dies brutally of septicaemia in 1980 and the humiliation of public funeral where the count of Paris informs all that he considered his grandson as lower than the remainder of the family while refusing to place his small body in the family crypt of Orleans!

After this tragic event, the things go from evil in worse in the life of prince Thibaut. In the months which follow funerals of his/her son, it is implied in an robbery attempt of tables and is écroué for complicity with the Prison of Tarbes for fourteen months before being condemned, at the time of its lawsuit, at “only” one year of imprisonment and being thus released after the audience, on June 28th, 1981. Obviously, the business makes great noise and the problems of prince Thibaut are found with the One of many newspapers.

Some time after his coming out of prison, the count of Walk leaves France to go in Central Africa and to organize there safaris for rich person tourists. It is in this country that the prince finds death mysteriously, on March 23rd, 1983. At the time, the press declares that the prince is deceased of a “striking down infection” or of the attack of a virulant virus. However, the analyzes carried out by the Institut Pasteur definitively draw aside these two tracks and the official thesis - which is not based on any autopsy speaks about “épanchement péricardiaque bulky”. Marion of Orleans and several of his/her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law (of which the prince Jacques) think rather of an assassination but keep silence, probably to avoid a new scandal.

However, on December 27th, 1989, the mystery of died of prince Thibaut rebounds after the Public prosecutor opened an instruction against X for voluntary manslaughter on its person. Within the framework of a setting under phone-tapping of a drug trafficker, the central Office for the repression of the traffic of narcotic indeed was the witness of a conversation between two men evoking the death of the count of Walk like an assassination. The prince Jacques of Orleans then constitutes civil part for his family and the judge in load of this business makes exhume the body of Thibaut of Orleans to practice on him an examination autopsic and radiological. The thesis of épanchement péricardiaque is then completely abandoned while the virological analyzes confirm that the prince was reached of no disease. But finally, in spite of strong suspicions, the judge obtains no element in its investigation which accredits the thesis of an assassination and signs, in 1991, a nonsuit. The mystery of died of prince Thibaut thus remains whole.

The mortal remains of the count of Walk is buried today in the crypt of Orleans, with the royal Chapelle of Dreux. As for the young person wire of the prince, the count of Paris refused, in 1983, to place his body in the middle of the other family members, in the crypt, and relegated it in a side chapel for underlining its forfeiture well. However, one of the first acts of the new count de Paris, Henri of Orleans (1933-), after its nomination was to move the skins of his/her brother and his nephew in order to reinstall them at the sides of the remainder of Orleans. The new applicant orleanist also returned to his surviving nephew, Robert of Orleans, count of Walk, his character dynaste. Measurement is certainly purely symbolic system - and even a little obsolete at one time when the very large majority of the French is far from wishing a restoration but it is at least honourable from a family point of view.

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