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Orleans (LOUIS ALBERT PHIL- IPPE Count)

LOUIS ALBERT PHIL- IPPE, Count of Paris; born in the Tuileries, Paris, France, Aug. 24, 1838; son of the Duke of Orleans; was educated at Claremont, England. In 1861 he and his brother, the Duke of Chartres, came to the United States and served with distinction on General McClellan's staff till in squares, Gothic cathedral, and other June, 1862. After the establishment of notable uildings. Confectionery, pot- the republic in France he lived in Paris, tery, and woolen goods are the staple till the expulsion bill of 1886 drove him articles of manufacture. Philip of Va- into exile to England. Among his publilois erected Orléans into a duchy and cations, his "History of the Civil War in peerage in favor of his son, and Orleans America" (1874-1889) is highly esteemcontinued to give the title of duke to a ed by historians and military critics. prince of the blood royal. In 1426 the city susta ned a siege against the English, and was relieved by the Maid of Orléans (loan of Arc), whose statue in bronze stands in one of the public squares. [t was taken and retaken more than once in the Franco-German War in the latter part of 1870. Pop. about 75,000.