Louis Philippe d'Orléans, prince de Condé
Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans (born November 15, 1845 in Saint-Cloud , † May 24, 1866 in Sydney ) was Prince of Condé. He was the first royal to visit the Australian continent .
Life
Exile in England
Louis Philippe d'Orléans was born in 1845 as the eldest son of Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale and his wife Maria Karolina Augusta of Naples-Sicily . He was awarded the title of Prince of Condé. This title was originally held by the House of Bourbon-Condé , but with the death of Louis VI. Henri Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé went out. Based on the last holder of the title, the young Louis d'Orléans was nicknamed "le petit Condé" .
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After the outbreak of the February Revolution in 1848 , his parents went into exile with him in England. He later attended the Royal High School in Edinburgh , where he was tutored by Leonhard Schmitz .
Trip to Australia
When Louis d'Orléans was 20 years old, his father arranged for him to travel the world for eighteen months. In his father's opinion, traveling in a non-European climate should improve his ailing health. Together with his doctor Dr. Paul Gingeot and his cousin Ferdinand d'Orléans, duc d'Alençon , Louis d'Orléans set out on February 4, 1866, in Southampton on the Mongolia , a passenger ship of the British shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). The itinerary should include Egypt , Ceylon , Australia , New Zealand , Java , China , Japan and India . Louis d'Orléans was particularly interested in Australia, whose exotic nature fascinated him.
Since the Suez Canal was not yet completed in 1866, after their arrival in Alexandria they traveled by train via Cairo to Suez and then on a smaller ship to finally reach the Bengal , also a passenger ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company with which Louis d'Orléans and Gingeot continued their journey. Ferdinand d'Orléans, duc d'Alençon had left the tour group in Egypt to travel on to Manila . After a short stay in Ceylon , they continued their journey on the Bombay owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company .
On April 8, the Bombay reached King George Sound , a bay on the southwest coast of Western Australia . Louis d'Orléans went ashore in the company of a wealthy Queensland businessman in Albany and met there with the Chief Magistrate of Albany, Sir Alexander Campbell, among others .
On April 13, the Bombay reached Melbourne . Louis d'Orléans, who wanted to arrive in Sydney as soon as possible, decided to visit the city on his return journey. The further voyage of the Bombay took him along the colonies of South Australia , Victoria and New South Wales , past Cape Howe and the Australian Alps.
On April 16, 1866, the Bombay docked in Port Jackson . D'Orléans was very impressed by the city and compared it to the old cities in Europe.
Although including the Governor of New South Wales, Sir John Young , d'Orléans and his tour group offered a more adequate accommodation, they decided in the Church Hill near St. Philip's located Petty's Hotel to stay. Over the next five weeks, d'Orléans, whose health improved noticeably, attended various social events, visiting the University of Sydney , the Australian Museum , the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Sydney Hospital . He met local figures such as Edward Deas Thomson , Chancellor of the University of Sydney, and Charles Moore , director of the Botanical Gardens. Further trips took him to Parramatta , Windsor and Kurrajong .
Death and burial
On May 12, 1866, he received news of the death of his grandmother Maria Amalia of Naples-Sicily , which hit him hard and, in connection with a cold that he had caught on a trip to Manly , severely impaired his health. Dr. Gingeot ordered him to rest, but d'Orléans ignored it.
After a brief improvement, his health finally deteriorated rapidly, so that Dr. Gingeot consulted another doctor. On the evening of May 24th, Louis d'Orléans died in the presence of Dr. Gingeot, his valet and Archdeacon McEncroe, who gave him the final rites . With his death, the title of Prince of Condé expired for the second, and now final, time.
In the course of the next few days, representatives of public life gathered at Petty's Hotel, including Governor John Young, Chief Justice Alfred Stephen , the Premier of New South Wales James Martin , Commodore Sir William Wiseman and the consuls of the United States and the Netherlands , from Belgium and Brazil to pay their last respects to d'Orléans. Louis Sentis, the French consul, appeared, unlike his counterparts, as a private person, as the French government did not recognize the Orleans claim to the throne .
The funeral service took place on May 29, 1866. A long procession, led by Bishop Aloys Elloy and about 20 clerics, accompanied the coffin from Petty's Hotel to Saint Mary's Cathedral . Among the pallbearers were the Governor, the Chief Justice , the Premier, Commodore Sir William Wiseman and the Belgian Consul. Many shops in Sydney were closed on the occasion and the consulates hung their flags at half mast.
Around 2,000 visitors attended the funeral mass at Saint Mary's Cathedral. As Archbishop John Bede Polding was in Rome , Aloys Elloy represented him at the mass. At the end of the mass, the coffin and the silver container in which the heart of Louis d'Orléans was located were brought aboard the Sea Star , which was anchored at Circular Quay . On June 2, 1866, the Sea Star set out for London with the remains of d'Orléans. On board were also Dr. Gingeot and the Prince's retinue. The Sea Star arrived in London on September 11, 1866.
After the end of the Second Empire and the Paris Commune , the Louis d'Orléans family returned to France from their exile in England in 1871. In 1885 the urn containing the hearts of the Princes of Condé was placed in the chapel of Chantilly Castle . The heart of Louis d'Orléans also found its final resting place here.
His remains are in the Chapelle Royale Saint-Louis in Dreux .
Aftermath
Posterity will remember Louis d'Orléans primarily through his visit to Australia. He was the first member of a royal family to visit the Australian continent. The first visit of a member of the British royal family was in 1867 by Prince Alfred , who reached Australia in October and stayed there for five months.
literature
- Ivan Barko: "Le petit Condé": The Death in Sydney in 1866 of Australia's first royal visitor ( Explorations - Journal of French-Australian Connections . No. 35, December 2003. Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations , University of Melbourne )
- Jirí Louda, Michael MacLagan: Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe. 2nd Edition. Little, Brown and Company, London 1999, plate 70.
- Paul Gingeot: Un voyage en Australie (1867; PDF; 9.3 MB)
Web links
- Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans, Prince de Condé on thepeerage.com , accessed August 12, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Marie Ramsland: Impressions of a young French gentleman's 1866 visit to the Australian Colonies ( Australian Studies, Vol. 2. 2010)
- ↑ Royal visits to Australia - The early visits: consolidating distant sympathies ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Australian Government website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Louis Philippe d'Orléans, prince de Condé |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans; Louis d'Orléans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince of Condé |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Cloud |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1866 |
| Place of death | Sydney |