Prince Louis, duc de Nemours

A carte-de-visite portrait of of Louis-Charles-Philippe-Raphaël d'Orléans, duc de Nemours. Born in Paris on 25 October 1814, he was the second son of Louis d’Orléans, afterwards Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.

In 1831 he was elected King of the Belgians, but Louis-Philippe refused the crown in his son’s name. After the abdication of his father in 1842, Nemours, like the rest of his family, went into exile in England. He spent the years of his banishment trying to unite royalists and restore the monarchy, but after the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, he was allowed to return to France.

He died at Versailles on 26 June 1896.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London on 20 October 1860.