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LOUIS-PHILIPPE Ier L. C. P. R. d'ORLÉANS Duc de...

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LOUIS-PHILIPPE Ier L. C. P. R. d'ORLÉANS Duc de NEMOURS L. P. ALB. D'ORLEANS COMTE DE PARIS PRINCE RL. L. C. P. D'ORLEANS DUC DE NEMOURS Bust of Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans and Louis-Philippe Albert d'Orléans. Underneath: BORREL F.T. R/. Legends under a palm and an olive branch: TO THE KING/ WHO OF THE PAIN ALSO CARRIES THE CROWN / TO THE QUEEN, TO THE LADY IN LADDER, WHO BY HIS HEART / SHOULD, AS SHE WAS, ONE DAY BE THE ANGEL OF THE TRONE / TO THE ROYAL ORPHELIN, THE PRINCE PROTECTOR. / HOMAGE OF REGRETS-LOVE AND HOPE/ AND PLEDGE OF FUTURE TO THE ARMY TO FRANCE / THE KING IS OF AGE/ AT THE AGE OF XVIII YEARS COMPLETED, / THE FULL AND COMPLETE EXERCISE / OF THE ROYAL AUTHORITY, / ON BEHALF OF THE MINOR KING, / BELONGS TO THE REGENT / LAW OF AUGUST 30, 1842. Below: ALLIEN ED. Smooth slice (COPPER stamp). Dynastic medal in gilded copper for the regency of the Duke of Nemours 1842. Ø 51.5 mm (66.53 g)Very beautiful. Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans (1814-1896) Son of the King of the French Louis-Philippe I, sixteenth Duke of Nemours. Louis-Philippe Albert d'Orléans, Count of Paris (1838-1894), was Royal Prince of France from 1842 to 1848, then Orléanist pretender to the throne of France from 1848 to 1873 (under the name of Louis-Philippe II) then from 1883 to 1894 (under that of Philippe VII).