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Orleans (LOUIS PHILIPPE ROB- ERT DUKE)

LOUIS PHILIPPE ROB- ERT, DUKE OF, born in Twickenham, England, Feb. 6, 1869; son of the Count of Paris, and heir to the French throne; was educated in France, but banished with the other princes in 1886. In 1890 he returned and demanded the right of enlisting in the army, but was again imprisoned and banished. On the death of his father, in 1894, he became the head of the royal house.

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