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Lot Essay
Louis-Philipe-Robert Duc d'Orleans was imprisoned for a few months in 1890 for returning to France to perform his National Service against a decree of Exile.
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Louis-Philipe-Robert Duc d'Orleans,
the lithographic leaf printed with a photogravure of the Prince, and an art nouveau sunset of the fleur de lys setting into the horizon, inscribed 'la prison est moins dure que l'exile car la prison c'est encore la terre de France, signed Philippe, Prison de Clairvaux mai 1890, published by Le Panache, Revue Royaliste illustree, 42 rue du Bac, Paris, the verso with the royal cypher, with wooden sticks - 8.5in. (21cm.), 1890 (damage to one guardstick)
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the lithographic leaf printed with a photogravure of the Prince, and an art nouveau sunset of the fleur de lys setting into the horizon, inscribed 'la prison est moins dure que l'exile car la prison c'est encore la terre de France, signed Philippe, Prison de Clairvaux mai 1890, published by Le Panache, Revue Royaliste illustree, 42 rue du Bac, Paris, the verso with the royal cypher, with wooden sticks - 8.5in. (21cm.), 1890 (damage to one guardstick)
See Illustration
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