Les héritiers du comte de Paris récupèrent une part du "trésor des rois" - RTL info-
They win at last !
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The heirs of Count Paris recover a share of " Treasure of Kings"
20-9-2013
After twelve years of proceedings , the heirs of Count Paris will be able to recover the "historical treasure property of the kings of France" , which included paintings, valued at "several million euros", according to their lawyer, Mr. Olivier Baratelli .
Ten heirs of Count of Paris Henri d' Orleans , who died in 1999 , initiated in 2001 a long legal battle to recover property that their grandfather had given to the St. Louis Foundation he had created. The Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris has however refused to surrender the castles and chapels they also claimed.
In a statement , Mr. Baratelli , lawyer for Jacques d'Orléans and Hélène d'Orléans , on Friday hailed the "historic" ruling Thursday that "sees a court of the Republic give children the French family property which had been given away by those who thought they could circumvent the laws of the Republic . " For its part, counsel for the St. Louis Foundation , Mr. Thomas Rouhette , said the judgment was " quite favorable" to his client .
The court held that the donation of the Count of Paris in 1976 was tainted by " absolute nullity " lack of administrative one hand and deed before a notary on the other hand , according to Mr. Baratelli. Two "omissions" which, according to counsel, showed the willingness of the Count of Paris to "conceal considerable property he wanted to deprive his children."
Thus , the foundation must return to the heirs portraits of Louis XIII and Louis XIV child by Philippe de Champaigne, sketchbook Louis XIV realized at the age of seven years, the portrait of the Duchess of Orleans, the manuscript of the Statutes of the Order of St. Michael dating from the late fifteenth century.
The heirs will also recover a "compendium of Finance" of Louis XIV dating from 1682, Velvet calligraphy, watercolors Carmontelle and Prince de Joinville, the Grand Collar of the Order of the Garter, and a Sevres dinner service delivered in 1840 to Queen Marie-Amélie .
At the hearing in May , the foundation, which owns and manages the royal heritage , said it was ready to return to the heirs the movables . "There was a general agreement on the return of these objects ," said Friday Rouhette me. The heirs have however been rejected their requests for Amboise and Bourbon l'Archambault , the Royal Chapel of Dreux and expiatory chapel of Paris. Especially because these donations were made over 30 years before they are challenged in court, but also on the bottom, according to Mr. Rouhette .
"What we want is that these heirlooms serve as a backdrop to these iconic furniture so that they could be exposed to the public eye ," pleaded Mr. Olivier Baratelli , lamenting that the drawings are of Louis XIV " stored in a morocco at the bottom of a drawer." According to Mr Rouhette, these
objects could not be exposed at Amboise for reasons of safety and stewardship , but were loaned for exhibitions, notably at Versailles for Louis XIV designs. The returned objects are intended to be exposed to Versailles for 70 drawings of Louis XIV , or the Louvre to the table of Louis XIII, according to Mr. Baratelli .
At the end of his life , the Count of Paris had excécrables relations with his family. "They have nothing but their tears to cry ," he reportedly said about his children that he had begun to hate . This hatred was born of frustration , in the sixties , when the direct descendant of Louis XIII, great-great -grand- son of Louis Philippe , he saw his political ambitions permanently destroyed.
Thus the Count "sold off" the family heritage and created the Saint Louis Foundation, to which he bequeathed those items he had not sold.
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