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Count of Eu | |||||
Born | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | 28 April 1842||||
Died | 28 August 1922 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 80)||||
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House | Orléans | ||||
Father | Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours | ||||
Mother | Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
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Prince Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu (French: Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston; 28 April 1842 – 28 August 1922) was a French prince and military commander who fought in the Hispano-Moroccan War and the Paraguayan War. He was the first son of Louis, Duke of Nemours and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was married to Princess Isabel, daughter of Pedro II of Brazil and heiress to the Brazilian throne.