The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-07
DUG D'AUMALB DEAD.
Sueeumas to the Shock He Ex
perieneed on the Death
Of the Duehesse d
Aleneon.
TBy Gable to the Associated Press.1

lBy cable to the Associated Press.
PARIS, May Z, 1S97.-The Due dAuma1e
cied yesterday at Zucco Sicily, from the
shock he experienced upon hearing Of the
death of the Duchesse d'Alencon.
The attack which caused the death of
the Due dAumale only lasted few mo-
ments and he expired without suffering
The Princess C1ementine of Orleans, wife
of Prince Auguste of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, and sister of the Due d d'Aumale,
at whose villa at Zucco she has been
staying for some time past is very ILL.,
The Princess is eighty years of age and
the shocks caused by the sudden death
of her brother, following closely upon the
tragic death of the Duchesse. d'Alencon,
wife of the second son of Prince Louis
Philippe d'Orleans, Comte d. Eu, the ell
der brother of Princess Clementine, and
of the Due d'Aumale, may prove fatal.
Henri Eugene Philippe dorleans, Due
d d'Aumale, Prince of the family of
Orleans, was born in Paris on January 16
1922, and was the fourth son of the late
King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie
Amelle. He was educated for the army
and in 1S40 he accompanied his brother
part in the campaign which followed.
From 1S42 to 1843 he was again in
Algeria, where. at the head of the sub
division of Medeah he conducted one of
the most brilliant campaigns of the
war, capturing the camp and all the cor
respondence of the famous Arab leader
Abd-el-kader, together. for which he was
made Lieutenant-G General and was ap-
pointed to the command of the Province
of Constantine He directed the expedi-
ton against Biskara il, 1874 and in the
same year married Marie Caroline
Auguste de Bourbon, daughter of Prince
Leopold of Salerno. She died at Twicken-
ham, England in 1869.
The Due d Aumale in 1S47, succeeded
Marshal Begeaud as Governor-General of
Algeria: On receiving the news of the
revolution of February, 1848, he resigned
his command and Joined the ex-Royal
family in ENGLAND. With his brother, the
Prince de Joinville, he protested against
the decree banishing his family from
Europe and afterwards resided chiefly in
England, devoting himself to literary pur-
suits.
A pamphlet addressed by him to Prince
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte at the be-
ginning, of 1861, caused a great sensation
French authorities, who condemned the
printer ana publisher of the pamphlet to
fine, and Imprisonment The Due
d 'Aurale also challenged Prince Napoleon
to fight a duel and the latter's refusal to
France. e 4s
The Due d'Aumale possessed an ample
fortune, owned beautiful seat on the
banks of the Thames, near Twickenhaan.
and line estate in Worcestershire. He
was W also the owner OF superb collection
Shortly before the election for the Ma
flonal l, Assembly. in February. 1871 the
German war had in vain Sought permis
sion to serve in the French army, adj
dressed from London a proclamation to
Inc electors of the Department of the
Disc, in which. while declaring his prefer-
ence for Constitutional Monarchy. he
stated his willingness to bow to the Ma
adopted as the form of government TTeS
vas successful in his candidature but
dld not return to France until after the
leans family was repealed on June g of
the same year He took his seat in the
Assem-, Assembly on December 10. ISL: He was
on December 90 1911 and was nor1inated
General of Division on March 10 1872
Council of War before which Marshal
Bazaine was arraigned for surrendering
Metz to the Germans
lhe Due dAnmale. at the election for
the Assembly in February, 1875 declined
TO come forward again as a candidate in
order that he might devote his undivided
attention to his military duties
The Due d Aumale was elected A ,11eyn
Der of Fine Arts in 1880 and 1891 he was
made Hon. D. c. L.. of Oxford
The first two volumes of his .stIfstorv
of the Princes OF the House Of Conde.' .
appeared in 1869 and the fifth volume an
peared in 1889
After the passing of the Bill of Ex-
pulslon against the head of his family
tiaC iistiie ol liie DuC Il Aumale was StrIlc,
off the French Army list bv the then
Minister Of War, General Roulanger. and
the Duke withdrew from France Soon
after he had left the country it was
It was discovered that he had given his
tm beautiful Chateau de cnantilly, with all
the the priceless treasures it contained. to
the Institute of France in trIIsf for +bo
French Nation - 'i'e
The decree banishing the Duke from
france was revoked in. March, 1889, and
ne returned to Chantilly, in which he
had reserved a life interest for himself
During the same month he was elected
PRESIDENT of the French Academy for
three months Aoi