ORLEANS (Henri d'). - Lot 292

ORLEANS (Henri d'). 1908–1999. Count of PARIS, Orléanist pretender to the French throne. L.T.S. In exile, November 21, 1936, 2 ff. in-4, letterhead. Discussing the prince’s political involvement in the 1930s. He thanks his correspondent for a donation “intended for the propaganda work my father has entrusted to me; we must at all costs intensify our efforts and rally all the scattered forces around us. France, in fact, has for some time now entered a period of revolution that presents it with the following choice: either anarchy and disorder, or order through the Monarchy. We must therefore appeal to all those who wish to restore order through national restoration (...).” ENCLOSED: a portrait of the Count of Paris with an autographed inscription, 1936 (silver print mounted on cardboard). ENCLOSED: 2 postcards of Henri, Count of Clermont, and his wife Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg. (1957).