Used Book - The Dark Affairs of the Count of Paris, Prince Jacques of Orléans

It took years for Prince Jacques d'Orléans to finally dare to speak freely about his father, the Count of Paris.

The testimony he offers today is poignant in more ways than one. In it, he frankly and sometimes brutally evokes the merciless upbringing he and his siblings received, which produced only rebellious or broken personalities. But above all, he draws up a damning assessment of the successive attempts at restoration led by the Count of Paris, from far-right leagues to meetings with Pétain, from Darlan's assassination to submission to General de Gaulle. What emerges is the portrait of a man marked by repeated failures, slowly descending into madness, breaking with his family, rejecting his children, while behind the scenes, unscrupulous businessmen get their hands on an inheritance worth several billion francs.

Anxious to preserve a hereditary transmission and a heritage that form the very legitimacy of the French royal family, Prince Jacques d'Orléans opens his files, asking precise and embarrassing questions. Why did the Count of Paris strive to disinherit his children? What happened to the furniture, jewelry, and objects that belong to the history of France? Who are the individuals who allowed or facilitated this misappropriation?