Word: orleanist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Philippe was born 16 years before the Revolution in which his godparents, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, lost their heads. The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne. When the Government promised to release his imprisoned mother and two brothers if he would go to the U. S. he sailed for Philadelphia...
...Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed the amiable umbrella-wielding Orleanist, Louis Philippe...
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