Countess of Paris (1911-2003). Autograph dedication signed. No place. ½ page on 4to, on watermarked paper.
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An autograph dedication by Isabelle d’Orléans-Bragance, who bore the courtesy title of countess of Paris, that reads: "En souvenir du diner du 15 Mars 1963" ("In memory of the dinner of 15 March 1963"). - Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Thérèse Jeanne d’Orléans-Bragance was a French noble and since 1931 the spouse of Henri d’Orléans, who was the pretender to the French throne and an important figure for French royalists seeking to reinstate the monarchy in France. Her father was the pretender to the throne of the Empire of Brazil, Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, and her mother was the Bohemian countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz.
d'Orléans-Bragance was a descendant of the Citizen King Louis Philippe I as well as of the last Brazilian emperor Pedro II of Brazil. Several literary works were published under her name, such as "Moi, Marie-Antoinette" (1933) or "L'album de ma vie" (2002)..