3-077-667 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Duc de Montpensier, one of the Orleans Princes, 1890. Portrait from a photograph by Fernando Debas. 'The fifth son of the last French King, Louis Philippe, and one of the uncles of the Comte de Paris, who claims to be heir to the Crown, died suddenly on Feb. 4. at San Lucar, in Andalusia, having resided in Spain from the time of his marriage, in 1846, to the Infanta or Princess Maria Luisa Ferdinanda...The Duc de Montpensier, who was born in 1824, when his father, Louis Philippe, was only Duke of Orleans, and before the dethronement of the elder House of Bourbon, which took place by the Revolution of 1830, served a campaign in Algeria, and got high military rank, but was not a man who ever performed any action of renowned merit either in France or in Spain. In 1868, when Queen Isabella's throne was overturned, he had his faction of partisans, but was opposed by Don Enrique, the brother of Isabella's husband. These rivals fought a duel, near Madrid, on March 12, 1870, when Don Enrique was killed. The Due de Montpensier was tried for the murder, but was sentenced to a nominal punishment. The affair, however, excited much indignation, and the Due de Montpensier, always regarded as a foreigner in Spain, was more unpopular than ever'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.