Charles Paris d'Orléans, (Paris, 28 January 1649 -

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, Netherlands, 12 June 1672) was

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, Prince of Neufchatel,

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, Count of Tancarville and a military commander.

Biography

Charles Paris of Longueville was officially the child of Duke Henry II of Longueville, but was probably a natural child of Henry's second wife,

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and the French writer, Duke François de La Rochefoucauld, with whom his mother had an affair before his birth. When his elder (half-)brother Jean-Louis d'Orléans joined the Jesuits in 1668, Charles inherited the titles of

and

as the second son. Charles Paris of Longueville participated in the

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in Flanders and Franche-Comté, and by the end of 1668 in the unsuccessful attempt to lift the

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against the Turks. At the start of the Dutch campaign in 1672, he was part of the French cavalry, which crossed the Rhine at Elten in order to invade the Netherlands from there. On Sunday 12 June, on the left side of the river, near Tolhuis, some Dutch Frisian officers were surrendering, but Charles Paris shot down one of them without a cause. This irresponsible act led to a firefight with the Frisian prisoners, apparently not yet fully disarmed, in which Charles Paris, as the instigator of the event, was killed. Twenty senior officers on the French side were also killed in this exchange of fire, as were an unknown number of Frisian prisoners of war. The French commander-in-chief, his uncle the

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was so badly wounded that he had to hand over command to

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.http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/ENC3/21.html Account of the death of Charles Paris by

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''Le passage du Rhin par les troupes de Louis XIV'' (in French)] Although unmarried, Charles of Longueville had a bastard son with Madeleine d'Angennes, wife of Marshal

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. This son, Charles-Louis d'Orléans, was killed sixteen years later at the

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. Because he left no legal children, his half-brother Jean-Louis had to take up his old titles again. Some years before his death,

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had been working to make Charles Paris eligible for the vacant Polish crown, which in 1669 fell to his main competitor,

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. Charles-Paris is remembered with a buste in the

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in the Palace of Versailles.

References

File:ElleParis.jpg, Portrait of Charles Paris as Hercules, around 1658-1660. File:Charles Paris d'Orleans Nanteuil 1660.jpg, Engraved portrait of Charles Paris d'Orléans (1660) File:Charles Paris d’Orléans.jpg, buste in the

in the Palace of Versailles

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'', Band 3.2, 1983, Table 311 {{DEFAULTSORT:Orléans,Charles Paris 1649 births 1672 deaths Dukes of Longueville 17th-century peers of France Princes of Neuchâtel French military personnel of the Franco-Dutch War