Louis Philippe

American  

noun

1. Citizen King, 1773–1850, king of France 1830–48.

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Louis Philippe British  

/ filip /

noun

1. known as the Citizen King. 1773–1850, king of the French (1830–48). His régime became excessively identified with the bourgeoisie and he was forced to abdicate by the revolution of 1848

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Example Sentences

The tradition then took a political turn in the 1830s, under King Louis Philippe I, with people banging pots and pans at night under the windows of judges’ and politicians’ homes to demand greater freedoms.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

It was . . . impressive enough, which is almost exactly the same reaction that Louis Philippe, a future king of France, had while visiting in the late 18th century.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2021

When cholera struck Paris in 1832 — in an epidemic that eventually killed nearly 19,000 Parisians — a conspiracy theory spread that the unpopular government under King Louis Philippe was poisoning wells with arsenic.

From Nature • Oct. 14, 2019

Shortly before the Europe-wide revolution of 1848 that violently dethroned France’s King Louis Philippe, Douglass returned to the US from Britain where he had fled to escape the slave-catchers sent by his former master.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2017

Louis Philippe, his reign, 216, 217; caricatured, 218, 321.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James