 René de La Tour du Pin, a prominent royalist, was an authentic "Blanc d'Eu".In the same movement, they were short-lived as the ideological Orléanists no longer supported the Count of Paris and the Orléans, and had rallied behind Adolphe Thiers to moderate republicanism in the 1870s.Without renouncing his grandfather Louis Philippe I, the Count of Paris decided, in 1873, to support the cause of the Count of Chambord, and not that of the July Monarchy, much to the chagrin of his uncles Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale and François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, the last representatives of Orléanist dynastic politics.