six old black and white photographs of people sitting on a chairseveral old books are sitting on a black cloth covered table
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663 - COUNT & COUNTESS of CHAMBORD – FAMILY OF ARTOIS ( * ) – circ…
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COUNT & COUNTESS of CHAMBORD – FAMILY OF ARTOIS ( * ) – circa 1860 / 1870. FIVE PHOTOGRAPHS, five visiting-card-sized portraits, albumen bromides mounted on card, approx. 10.5 x 6 cm: - two photographs of the Countess of Chambord – seated facing the camera, by Charles JACOTIN; and the Countess standing in a long dress, in a three-quarter profile, by LEGE & BERGERON, successors to Carjat et Cie. - three photographs of Henri de Chambord, three close-ups seated facing the camera / in profile: by the photographers ABDULLAH FRERES, photographers to His Majesty the Sultan, in Pera, Constantinople + FRANCK in Paris + A. KEN & Cie in Paris. ( * ) Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d’Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, better known by his title Count of Chambord. Born on 28 September 1820 at the Tuileries Palace and died on 24 August 1883 at Frohsdorf Castle in Lanzenkirchen, Austria. Head of the Capetian House of Bourbon, pretender to the French throne from 1844 until his death under the name HENRI V – Mother: Caroline of the Two Sicilies; married Marie Thérèse of Modena in 1846 (Milan 1817 – Gorizia 1886).
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