| Jean d'Orléans | |||||
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| Count of Paris | |||||
 Jean in 2019 | |||||
| Orléanist pretender to the French throne | |||||
| Pretence | 21 January 2019 – present | ||||
| Predecessor | Henri, Count of Paris | ||||
| Heir apparent | Gaston | ||||
| Born | 19 May 1965 Boulogne-Billancourt, France | ||||
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| House | Orléans | ||||
| Father | Prince Henri, Count of Paris | ||||
| Mother | Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
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Jean, Count of Paris (Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans, born 19 May 1965) is the current head of the House of Orléans. Jean is the senior male descendant by primogeniture in the male-line of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and thus, according to the Orléanists, the legitimate claimant to the defunct throne of France as Jean IV.[2] Of France's three monarchist movements, Orléanism, Legitimism and Bonapartism, most royalists are Orléanists.[3] Jean is the second son of the late Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019) and his former wife Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg (b. 1934). With the death of his father, he has been using the style of Count of Paris since 2019.[4]
- ^ "Portrait du prince Jean". gensdefrance.com (in French). Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Henri d'Orléans, pretender to French throne, dies". RFI. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ O'Reilly, Edward (24 January 2019). "Did You Know? The Tale of the three Frenchmen who still lay claim to the throne". The Local. Stockholm. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ Le Prince - website Le Comte de Paris