Orleanist

American  

[awr-lee-uh-nist] / ˈɔr li ə nɪst /

noun

1. a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.

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Orleanist British  

/ ɔːˈlɪənɪst /

noun

1. an adherent of the Orléans branch of the French Bourbons

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Other Word Forms

• Orleanism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Orleanist

1825–35; < French Orléaniste; see Orléans, -ist

Example Sentences

The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the Revolution of July, however, he refused to accept any favours from the Orleanist dynasty, and lived quietly, publishing nothing after 1833.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

They are making a cat's-paw of his really magnificent fight for their own ignoble ends, the Orleanist party.

From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold

Several Electoral Committees have been formed, each of which puts forward its own list—that which sits under the Presidency of M. Dufaure, an Orleanist, at the Grand Hotel, is the most important of them.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

But the very profusion of the Orleanist offers threw doubt on their sincerity.

From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by Green, John Richard