TWO GIFTS TO FRENCH SCIENCE. 



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the French Academy (1871), taking the place of Montalembert ; of 

 the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and of the Academy of 

 Fine Arts; and as a patriot, though a banished prince. The gift 

 was made three months after the decree was issued banishing the 

 Orleans princes from France, and after the duke had expostulated 

 with M. Grevy in vain against the step. The deed reads : " Wishing 

 to preserve to France the domain of Chantilly in its integrity, with 

 its woods, lawns, waters, buildings, and all that they contain — 

 trophies, pictures, books, objects of art, and the whole of what forms, 



Fig. 3. — The Chateau of Chantii/ly. 

 (Presented by the late Due d'Aumale to the Institute of France.) 



as it were, a complete and various monument of French art in all its 

 branches, and of the history of my country in its epochs of glory — I 

 have resolved to commit the trust to a body which has done me 

 the honor of calling me into its ranks by a double title, and which, 

 without being independent of the inevitable transformations of 

 societies, escapes the spirit of faction and all too abrupt shocks, main- 

 taining its independence through political fluctuations. Conse- 

 quently, I give to the Institute of France, which shall dispose of it 

 according to conditions to be hereafter determined, the domain of 

 Chantilly as it shall exist on the day of my death, with the library 

 and the other artistic and historical collections which I have formed 

 in it, the household furniture, statues, trophies of arms, etc." The 

 sole condition attached to the gift was that nothing should be 

 changed at Chantilly. The chapel, where the heart of Conde is de- 



