Henri Philippe Marie d'Orléans

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Henri Philippe Marie d'Orléans (born October 16, 1867 in Morgan House, Ham , England ; † August 9, 1901 in Saigon ) was a Frenchman from the House of Bourbon-Orléans, explorer , photographer and author . His travels inspired him to occasionally devote himself to painting . His paintings can be assigned to orientalism .

Henri d'Orléans was the son of Robert d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (1840-1910) and his wife and cousin Françoise Marie Amélie d'Orléans (1844-1925). On his father's side, he was the grandson of the heir to the throne Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (1810–1842), who died in a carriage accident in 1842 , and on his mother's side of his brother François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville (1818–1900), both sons of the im In 1848, Louis-Philippe was ousted by the February Revolution and expelled to England .

Life

The adventurer and hunter was interested in distant lands at a very young age and went on numerous expeditions.

Henri Philippe Marie de Bourbon-Orléans

From July 1889 to 1890, at the age of 21, he led an expedition financed by his father to Central Asia at the side of the French researcher Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) , which took him from Paris via Siberia to Tonkin and the Should serve exploration of the north of Tibet . The route led from Semei in a south and south-east direction, over the Tianshan high mountains, the Taklamakan desert and Xinjiang . In the north of Lhasa , the researchers' project failed, as did the expeditions of Huc and Gabet (1844), the Russian colonel Przewalski (1879) and later that of William Woodville Rockhill (1892) before them . In fact, none of the travelers who set out for Lhasa from the Occident reached their destination in the second half of the 19th century. Bonvalot and d'Orléans were stopped a short distance north of Lhasa and forced to return via Sichuan . At the border town of Manhao their caravan reached the valley of the Red River , at the end of September 1890 they were in Hanoi . There, d'Orléans, who took countless photos on the way, established friendly relations with the French photographer Pierre-Marie Alexis Dieulefils (1862–1937), who was then living in Hanoi with his family .

After returning home, the photos served as templates for the engravings to illustrate Bonvalot's travelogue “De Paris à Tonkin à travers le Tibet inconnu” (From Paris to Tonkin - through the unknown Tibet) published by Hachette in 1892 .

Henri d'Orléans wrote down his own experiences in his most famous book “Autour du Tonkin”. It was published in Paris in 1894 and aroused so much interest on the one hand because of the unselfishness of this trip and on the other hand because of the extraordinary adventures it describes that the English translation of “Around Tonkin and Siam” was published in London that same year.

In 1892 he explored the east of Africa as far as the area of Harrar ( Ethiopia ), in 1895 he set out again for Central Asia and in 1898 again for Ethiopia, this time in the company of Count Léontief.

Henri-Philippe d'Orléans died in Saigon in 1901 at the age of 33 of liver disease.

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  • 1894: Henri d'Orléans: “Autour du Tonkin”, Calmann-Lévy, 1894, Paris.
  • 1894: Henri d'Orléans, CB Pitmann (translation): “Around Tonkin and Siam”, Chapmann & Hall, 1894, London.

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personal data
SURNAME Orléans, Henri Philippe Marie d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orléans, Henri d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French explorer
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Ham
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1901
Place of death Saigon