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Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and thus, a grandson of King Louis Philippe I of France. He fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. In 1863, he married his cousin Princess Françoise of Orléans, the daughter of François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville. In 1886, he was exiled from France.
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