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PRINCE HENRI ORLEANS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRINCE
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HENRI ORLEANS
  of (1867-1901), eldest son of Robert, duke of
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Chartres, was born at
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Ham, near Richmond, Surrey, on the 16th of
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October 1867 . In 1889, at the instance of his
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father, who paid the expenses of the tour, he undertook, in
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company with MM . Bonvalot and Dedecken, a journey through
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Siberia to Siam . In the course of their travels they crossed the mountain range of Tibet, and the fruits of their observations, submitted to the
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Geographical Society of Paris (and later incorporated in De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu, published in 1892), brought them conjointly the gold medal of that society . In 1892 the prince made a short journey of exploration in East Africa, and shortly afterwards visited
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Madagascar, proceeding thence to
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Tongking . From this point he set out for
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Assam, and was successful in discovering the
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sources of the
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river Irrawaddy, a brilliant geographical achievement which secured the medal of the Geographical Society of Paris and the
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cross of the Legion of Honour . In 1897 he revisited Abyssinia, and
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political differences arising from this trip led to a duel with the comte de
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Turin, in which both combatants were wounded . While on a trip to Assam in 1901 he died at
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Saigon on the 9th of August . Prince
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Henri was a somewhat violent Anglophobe, and his diatribes against
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Great Britain contrasted rather curiously with the cordial reception which his position as a traveller obtained for him in
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London, where he was given the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society .

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