Henri, Count of Paris, French noble, Died at 85

Prince Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris, Duke of France was born on June 14, 1933 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was head of the House of Orléans as the Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII.

A descendant in the male-line of France's "Citizen-King" Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans he ruled from 1830 to 1848.

He was also recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists, called Unionists, who regard him as the rightful heir of Prince Henri de Bourbon, Count of Chambord, the last patrilineal descendant of King Louis XV. Henri was a retired military officer as well as an author and painter.

Prince Henri was the first son of Henri, Count of Paris (1908 to 1999), and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and was born in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre,

Belgium because an 1886 law had exiled the heirs of France's formerly reigning dynasties.

This law was abrogated in 1950, when Henri was able to repatriate with his parents, but he had already been allowed to visit France by special favour of President Vincent Auriol in 1948.

On 25 August 1940, his grandfather, Jean d'Orléans, Duke of Guise, died.

His father became pretender, and Henri was recognised as dauphin in pretence by Orléanists.

In 1957 his father conferred upon him, as heir apparent, the title Count of Clermont.

Prince Henri studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Prince Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris, Duke of France passed away at age 85 on January 21, 2019.