Aumale (formerly Albemarle), a town of France, in the department of Seine-Inferieure, 40 m. N. E. of Rouen; pop. in 1866, 2,929. In 1592 a battle was fought here between the French and the Spaniards, in which Henry IV. was wounded. In the beginning of the 16th century Aumale was a county belonging to Claude de Lorraine, 5th son of Rene II., duke of Lorraine, who was afterward created duke of Guise by Francis I. of France, and became the head of the illustrious family of that name. It was raised to the rank of a duchy by Henry II., and held as such by Claude II., 3d son of Claude L, and brother of the celebrated Francis of Guise. This duke of Aumale distinguished himself during the war of the French against the emperor Charles V., was one of the promoters of the St. Bartholomew massacre, and was killed by a cannon ball before La Rochelle in 1573. His son Charles de Lorraine fought against Henry IV., assisting the duke of May-enne in the battles of Arques and Ivry, where the troops of the league were defeated. - The title of duke of Aumale, after being extinct for years, was given to Henei Eugene Philippe Louis d'Orleans, 4th son of Louis Philippe, born in Paris, Jan. 16, 1822. Like his brothers, he was educated at one of the public colleges of Paris. In 1839 he was appointed captain in the 4th regiment of the line; he took part in the African expedition of Medeah, served a second campaign in Algeria, and returned to France in 1841 on account of ill health.

While entering Paris, Sept. 13, 1841, at the head of the 17th regiment, of which he had been appointed colonel, a man of the name of Quenisset discharged a gun at him, but missed his aim. In 1842 he was made brigadier general, and commander of the district of Medeah. On May 16, 1843, he attacked and routed Abd-el-Kader, and as a reward was made lieutenant general and commander of the province of Constantine.

In 1847 he was appointed governor of Algeria in place of Marshal Bugeaud, and soon afterward received Abd-el-Kader's surrender. In 1848, on hearing of the revolution in Paris, he exhorted the population to wait calmly for further developments; and on March 3 he resigned and joined the other members of his family in England. On the outbreak of the Franco-German war in 1870 he offered his services to the government, but they were not accepted. After the downfall of Napoleon III. he returned to France, and in 1872 took his seat as a member of the national assembly. His eldest son, prince de Conde, died in Australia in 1866, aged 21, and his wife, a Neapolitan princess, in 1869. His only remaining child, the duke de Guise, born Jan. 5, 1854, died in Paris, July 25, 1872. He inherited a large fortune from the Conde family. In 1872 he was elected a member of the French academy. Besides pamphlets and articles on political and military matters, he is the author of Histoire des princes de Conde (2 vols., Paris, 1869), translated into English by the Rev. R. Brown-Borthwick (2 vols., London, 1872).