Show THE DUO s Uf ALL I The Man Who Bequeaths His Estates to the Fieucu People I I The entire domain of Cbai tilly with its magnificent cattle ana ah its dependencies de-pendencies the value of which at the lowest estimate is over 60000 00 franc his been presented by Due dAumale to toe Institute of France to be held for it iu trust for the French nation The date of the will making this munificent gift is 1884 In stating his intentions at this time Due dAumal explains that he wibes to have toe transfer made now for the express purpose of avoiding legal tampenug which might be instituted by claimants or heirs after his death The estates are to bt called the Conde Museum are to be opened to the public At least twice a week during six months of the year and the revenues are to be applied to keeping the whole of the estates in proper order and in the a q lirement of additional works of an to enrich the magnificent collection wiu which the estates are already endowed to pensioning pen-sioning indigent authors and artists and tj furnishing prizes for the encouragement en-couragement of the adoption ot scientific scien-tific and artistic careers A separate clause of the will authorizes the sale of certain of the Due dAumales property situated elsewhere than at Chanti ly to provide the money for the preliminary expenses which may attend the transfer and transformation of the Chantilly estates from their present private character to that for which they are bequeathed The Due dAumale is the fourth son of King Louis Phillippe He is now Oi year of age His profession is that ol a soldier and before the revolution 1S43 he had rendered valuableassist ance in the conquest of Algeria The events which drove his father into exile alto caused him to take up I is rf idl < pin p-in England where lie Iii eu irom lti 1 to 1871 After the overthrow of the second sec-ond empire the Due d Aumule returned to France was elected a member ot theN the-N Holml Assembly and resumed his position us a general of tee French army In this capacity he acted as president of the courtmartial which condemned Marshal Bazaiue to death for his alleged treachery in the surrender surren-der of Metz Aa the result of recent legislation in France he is incapacitated from further public service to his country coun-try He now makes magnificent retal ation 1 he Due dAumale is considered the most accomplished of all the sons of Louis Philippe Added to his great anility as a soldier are his qualifications qualifica-tions as an author sportsman and conversationalist He was made a member of the French Acauexhy in 1873 to fill the place made vacant by the death of Montalembert Chantilly which is about an hours ride by express train from Paris is a town of 4000 inhabitants The estate descended to the Duc dAumale from the Condes He was deprived of his ancestral property during his second sec-ond empire but it vas restored to him by a decree of the National Na-tional Assembly in 1872 The forest of Chantilly covers 6125 acres and through it runs a broad road past the racecourse which includes a splendid piece of ground of 150 acres This has been rented to the Jockey Club Adjoining Ad-joining it are the stables erected in 1735 by1 Louis Henri de Bourbon At Chantilly have been kept threescore three-score horses and two packs of boar and stag hounds there are coach horses riding schools and innumerable other outbuildings while within the castle are magnificent works of art statuary etc and a picture gallery containing paintings by Raphael Poussin Anni bal Carracci Delaroche Ingres and othet great ancient and modern masters mas-ters |