Used – The Dark Affairs Of The Count Of Paris - Jacques d'Orleans

Author(s): Jacques d'Orleans Publisher: Albin Michel Publication: 10/14/1999 Number of pages: 229 Number of books: 1 Shipping weight: 350 Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.1 Summary:

It took years for Prince Jacques d'Orléans to finally dare to speak freely about his father, the Count of Paris. The testimony he provides today is poignant in more ways than one. With frankness and sometimes brutality, he recounts the merciless upbringing he and his siblings endured, which produced only rebellious or broken personalities. But above all, he provides a damning assessment of the Count of Paris's successive attempts at restoration, from far-right leagues to meetings with Pétain, from the assassination of Darlan to submission to General de Gaulle. This paints a picture of a man marked by repeated failures, slowly descending into madness, breaking with his family, rejecting his children, while behind the scenes, opportunists seized a patrimony worth billions of francs. Concerned with preserving a hereditary transmission and a heritage that form the very legitimacy of the House of France, Prince Jacques d'Orléans opens his files, asking precise and embarrassing questions. Why did the Count of Paris endeavor to disinherit his children? Where have the furniture, jewelry, and objects belonging to the History of France gone? Who are the individuals who allowed or facilitated this misappropriation?