CDV OF CAPT. LOUIS PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS-MCCLELLAN'S STAFF
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Beautiful CDV of the grandson of Louis-Philippe King of France. Both Louis and his brother Robert took the Oath of Allegiance and served without pay on General G. B. McClellan's staff during the Civil War. This card is near mint, clean s/as they come. On the back is glued on sticker advertising the sellers, in this case interior decorators. Seems like everyone sold photos back then. They cover a E. & H.T. Anthony back mark, more than likely a Brady photo. The only reason this isn't mint is the pencil i.d. on the back, why in the world do dealers have to mark on the items is beyond me, shame on you! A little about the Compte de Paris. Louis-Philippe Albert of Orléans, Count of Paris ( August 24 , 1838 - September 8 , 1894 ) was the grandson of Louis Philippe I , King of the French. He became the Prince Royal , heir to the throne, when his father, Prince Ferdinand-Philippe , died in a carriage accident in 1842 . Although t was some effort during the days after the abdication of his grandfather in 1848 to put him on the throne under his mother's (Helene of Mecklenburg) regency, this came to nothing. They fled and the French Second Republic was proclaimed in its stead. A historian, journalist and outspoken democrat, the Count of Paris volunteered to serve as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War along with his younger brother,
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