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Orleans (BASTARD OF See Du- NOIS JEAN)

BASTARD OF. See Du- NOIS, JEAN.

The present landed proprietors are ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASchiefly of Scotch descent, the islanders TON, DUKE OF, third son of Henry IV. generally of mixed Scandinavian and of France, and Mary Medici; born April Scotch origin. Pop.

Pop. (1918) estimated, 25, 1608. By his first marriage, with 23,100.

In the World War (1914- Mary of Bourbon, heiress of the house of 1918) the British Grand Fleet made Montpensier, he had a daughter, author Scapa Flow in the Orkneys its base for of some interesting memoirs. During naval operations. Here the surrendered the disturbances of the Fronde he joined German war-ships were interned and subsequently sunk by order of the German Naval Command.