Aumale
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a small French town, in the department of Seine-Inférieure, 35 miles N. E. of Rouen, which has given titles to several notables in French history. JEAN D'ARCOURT, eighth Count d'Aumale, fought at Agincourt, and defeated the English at Gravelle (1423). CLAUDE II., Duc d'Aumale, one of the chief instigators of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, was killed 1573. CHARLES DE LORRAINE, Duc d'Aumale , was an ardent partisan of the League in the politico-religious French wars of the 16th century. HENRI EUGÈNE PHILIPPE LOUIS D'ORLEANS, Duc d'Aumale , son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, was born in Paris, Jan. 16, 1822. In 1847 he succeeded Marshal Bugeaud as Governor- General of Algeria , where he had distinguished himself in the war against Abdel-Kader. After the Revolution of 1848 he retired to England; but he returned to France in 1871, and was elected a member of the Assembly ; became Inspector-general of the army in 1879, and was expelled, along with the other royal princes, in 1886. The same year he presented to the Institute of France his grand Chantilly estate, with all its priceless art and historical treasures. The decree of banishment was revoked on the fall of Boulanger, and the Duke returned to Chantilly. He published a "History of the House of Condé." He died in Zucco, Sicily, May 6, 1897 . AURANTIACEÆ (a-ran-tē-as'ē-i), an order of plants, classed by Lindley in his rutales, or rutal alliance. They have from three to five petals, stamina the same in number, or twice as many, or some multiple of the petals , hypogynous. The fruit is pulpy , and is many-celled. There is no genus aurantium. The typical one is citrus, which contains the orange, the lemon, the lime, etc. There are about 95 known species, all from India. AURELIAN, LUCIUS DOMITIUS
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The historical roll-call Collier's gave in 1921 still stands; what has moved is the map and the estate. The department it names, Seine-Inférieure, was renamed Seine-Maritime in 1955, and Aumale remains a small town of roughly 2,500 people 35 miles north-east of Rouen. The Duc d'Aumale's 1886 gift to the Institut de France has held: Chantilly's collections opened to the public as the Musée Condé in 1898, under his stipulation that no picture ever be moved or lent, and since 2005 the domaine has been run by a foundation set up with funding from the Aga Khan IV. Collier's also omits the Algerian town of Aumale, named for the duke during his governorship; it was renamed Sour El-Ghozlane after independence in 1962.
Written for this edition, 2026.