This gentleman was a personage of very great interest to Europeans.

He was the fourth son of Louis Philippe--the King of France who was
deposed in 1848. The Duke d'Aumale was trained to be a soldier. He loved
his profession, and made great progress in it, winning honors for himself
when but a lad of nineteen.

The French people idolized him, and declared that he would some day be to
France what Wellington was to England.

His father was then King, and the Duke induced the King to send him on
active service, and for six years he was in various campaigns, always
distinguishing himself for his bravery and soldierly qualities.

At the end of this time there was a revolution in France. The King was
deposed, a second republic declared, and the whole Orleans family exiled.

The King and the princes went to England, and purchased some fine property
near London, at a place called Twickenham. Here the Duke lived, devoting
himself to literature and study.

The ungrateful French Government, forgetting the services he had done for
his country, not content with banishing him with the rest of his family,
took from him a famous estate called Chantilly, which had belonged to his
ancestors for centuries.

Despite this treatment the Duke's love for his country never changed.

When the Franco-German war broke out in 1870 he instantly offered his