Henri, Count Of Paris (born 1933)
Henri, Count of Paris, Henri d'Orleans and Henri, Duke of France are all names taken by recent claimants to the French throne. * Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999) * Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019), his son See also * Henri d'Orléans (other) Henri d'Orléans may refer to: *Henry II of France (1519–1559), a French king of the house of Valois *Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville (1568–1595), a French aristocrat and soldier *Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822–1897), fifth son ...

Henri, Count Of Paris (1908–1999)
Henri of Orléans, Count of Paris (Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie d'Orléans; 5 July 1908 – 19 June 1999), was the Orléanist claimant to the defunct throne of France as Henry VI from 1940 until his death in 1999. Henri was the direct descendant of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, son of Louis XIII. He was also a descendant of Louis XIV through a female line, from his legitimized daughter Françoise Marie de Bourbon; as well as the great-great-grandson (by four different lines of descent) of Louis Philippe I. The son of Jean, Duke of Guise, Henri was forbidden to enter France for much of his life. Nonetheless, he remained devoted to serving France, having enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and fighting in World War II and the Algerian War. After being permitted to re-enter France in 1950, he soon became heavily engaged in French monarchist politics. Henri worked to restore the French monarchy, in a parliamentary form, and discussed the topic with Charles de Gaulle. He received not ...
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Henri, Count Of Paris (1933–2019)
Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France (Prince ''Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans''; 14 June 1933 – 21 January 2019), was the Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII. He was head of the House of Orléans as senior in male-line descent from Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans, who reigned as King of the French from 1830 to 1848. Henri was a retired military officer as well as an author and painter. Early life He was the first son of Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and was born in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium, a law in 1886 having permanently exiled from France the heads of its formerly reigning dynasties and their eldest sons. Despite the ban, while living in Belgium Henri occasionally accompanied his mother on brief visits to France and, later, to his mother's relatives in Brazil. In August 1940 as World War II escalated, the family relocated to property they owned in Larache in the French pr ...
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