3-077-675 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Duc d'Orleans, imprisoned in Paris for breaking the law on the exile of princes, 1890. Portrait from a photograph by Walery. 'A considerable sensation was created in Paris on Feb. 7. The Due d'Orleans, son of the Comte de Paris, having attained his majority, presented himself to the military authorities in Paris, and claimed his right - in spite of the decree of exile against the Orleanist Princes - to serve in the French Army. His request was refused, and he was afterwards arrested - residence in France being forbidden by the law of June 22, 1886, to the chiefs of ex-reigning families of France and to their direct heirs. The penalty for the infringement of this law is imprisonment ranging from two to five years, and followed by expulsion. In conformity with the law, the Duke was, on the 8th, taken before the Paris Correctional Tribunal, and thereupon applied for an adjournment, that he might instinct counsel to appear for him. The application was granted. M. Cazenove de Pradine proposed a Bill in the Chamber, on the 10th, to abolish the Expulsion Law of 1886; but his motion was defeated by 328 votes to 171'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.