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Aumale (, Arabic: أومال Awmāl) is a former French département in Algeria. It existed from 17 March 1958 to 7 November 1959. It was named after the town of Sour El-Ghozlane, which at the time was called Aumale, after Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale.
It is a town inhabited since prehistoric times, the first city founded in Roman province in the center of deep Algeria, a Roman fortress but originally a Numidian city. Its construction dates from the year 33 av. AD during the reign of Emperor Augustus.
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Born at the Palais Royal in Paris, the young Henri was brought up by his parents in relative simplicity. At the age of eight, he inherited a fortune of 66 million livres (approximately £200 million today), the lands and wealth of his godfather, Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, the last Prince of Condé. This inheritance included the famous C...
On 25 November 1844, aged 22, Aumale married in Naples Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies, a daughter of Leopold of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno, and Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria. The couple had several children, of whom two reached adulthood, but still predeceased him: 1. Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans, Prince of...
Aumale distinguished himself during the French invasion of Algeria and, in 1847, he became lieutenant-general and was appointed Governor-General of Algeria, a position he held from 27 September 1847 to 24 February 1848. In this capacity, he received the submission of the emir Abdel Kadir, in December 1847. After the Revolution of 1848, he retired t...
Aumale was a notable collector of antique books and manuscripts and owned the important medieval Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Most of his collection is still at Chantilly.
Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale, died in Lo Zucco, Sicily. After the fire of the Bazar de la Charité on 4 May 1897, which killed 126 people, mostly aristocratic women, he wanted to send his condolences to the families of the victims. After writing twenty letters, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died. He was buried in Dreux, in the chapel of the Orlé...
1842: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour22 March 1842: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold6 September 1845: Knight of the Golden Fleece1864: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House OrderThe duke of Aumale did not have a personal coat of arms, so used the traditional arms of the House of Orléans, consisting of: 1. Blazon :Azure, three fleurs de lys or, a label argent 2. Coronet : of a fils de France 3. Supporters :two angels 4. Personal motto (after 1871) : J'attendrai(I'll be waiting)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Prinet, Léon Jacques Maxime (1911). "Aumale, Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duc d'". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Enc...
Biography on 19ème Siècle site[permanent dead link](in French)Académie françaiseWebsiteNov 18, 2021 · One out of every ten people in France is connected in some intense way to the Algerian question: they were drafted into the French army and sent to Algeria; they were native French army volunteers (“Harkis”) who fled to France for their safety but often ended up in camps; they are European pieds noirs who left Algeria in the great exodus ...
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Feb 21, 2015 · On May 8, 1945, when French Algerians celebrated Germany’s surrender, Algerian nationalists staged a protest against a return to French rule that resulted in a small Algerian uprising and brutal French retaliation.
Jul 5, 2020 · Here Will Desvallees tells us about French colonialism in Algeria and the lasting impacts of it in contemporary France. A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. The French lost this battle, but ultimately took control of Algeria.
