No sooner had the Duc d'Aumale resolved to bestow Chantilly with all its treasures as a gift to the French nation than he joined, with even more enthusiasm than he had previously done, the ranks of the great European collectors, and he frequently attended in person important sales in London, Paris, and elsewhere. During the long years of exile, passed chiefly in England, he usually resided either at Orleans House near Twickenham or at Woodnorton in Worcestershire (till recently the residence of his nephew, the present Duke of Orleans). It was, however, at the former place that all the valuable manuscripts, paintings, books, and objects of art brought from Chantilly were then housed. The first exhibition of his taste as a pronounced bibliophile was given by his acquiring the celebrated Standish Library, a collection originally bequeathed to Louis Philippe by the English collector Standish but sold by auction in 1851 on the death of that King. This remarkable collection contained numerous Aldine editions and hundreds of Italian and German _incunabula_. To this famous library the Duke next added that of M. Armand Cigongne, a collection composed almost exclusively of works in French--volumes of prose and poetry, exquisitely bound, and many of them still bearing the coats-of-arms and book-plates of former proprietors. The most important acquisition, however, (added in 1855), was the famous illuminated MS. known as _Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry_, an unique example of primitive French Art, to a description of which we shall return later on. In course of time other additions were made of great value and interest: such as, for instance, _Les Fables de Marie de France_, _Le Roman d'Aspremont_ (thirteenth century), a copious selection of ballads and songs of the fourteenth century, and many other works of note, amongst them being a copy in four volumes of the _Songs_ of Laborde, illustrated with original designs by Moreau. In the year 1861 the Duc d'Aumale, for the moderate sum of 14,000 francs, purchased from the well-known connoisseur M. Reiset a collection of no less than 380 drawings by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and German masters. Amongst these may be specially noted: _A Reading Monk_, by Raphael (hung in the Galerie du Logis), and a design, dated approximately 1505, which approaches in execution the _St. Catherine_ in the Gallery of the Louvre.[18] Here are also drawings attributed to Verrocchio: a _Warrior on Horseback_, five studies of horses, and an interesting drawing of _A Man and Woman_, all in the style of Pisanello.