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Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
1968Mar, 18

Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême

Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
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.

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