AUMALE, HENRI EUGENE PHILIPPE LOUIS D'ORLEANS, Duc D' (1822-97), French prince and statesman, 5th son of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, afterwards king of the French, and of Marie Amelie, princess of the Two Sicilies, was born in Paris, Jan. 16 1822. He inherited a large fortune from the Prince de Conde. Aumale entered the army at the age of 17, served in Algeria 184o-47, and was governor of the colony After the revolution of 1848 he went to England and occupied himself with military and historical studies.
Although his offer of service during the Franco-German War was declined, he resumed his place in the army in 1872 as general of division. He presided over the court martial which condemned Marshal Bazaine to death. In 1879 he became inspector general of the army. In the meantime he had been elected deputy for Oise to the Chamber. The act of exception of 1883 excluded him, with other members of ex-reigning families, from the army, and that of 1886 from exercising any public functions. Aumale protested, and was expelled, though he was permitted to return in 1889 on account of the bequest in his will of Chantilly with its art treasures to the Institute of France. The Duke was a member of the French Academy and the author of an unfinished Histoire des princes de Conde. He died at Zucco, Sicily, on May 7 1897.
See Georges Picot, M. le duc d'Aumale (1898) ; Ernest Daudet, Le duc d'Aumale (1898) .