Paris, Comte de, << kawnt duh >> (1838-1894), a claimant to the French throne, became the heir on the death of his father in 1842. But he lost his rights when his grandfather King Louis Philippe was driven from the throne in the Revolution of 1848.
Paris served briefly as a captain of volunteers in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the fall of Napoleon III in 1870, he returned to France. He became the candidate of the royalists, those who favored a return to government by kings. But the suspicious French Republicans passed an Act of Expulsion in 1886, which forced Paris into permanent exile in England.
Paris’s full name was Louis Philippe Albert d’Orleans. He was born in Paris, and was educated in England.
