Louis Philippe
Americannoun
noun
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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
“Never was a union so ill-assorted,” her close friend Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur, the French ambassador to Russia, wrote in his memoirs in 1826.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
The dynastic intrigues of Louis Philippe were the immediate cause of this estrangement, and those intrigues found their climax in what has ever since been known in European annals as the Spanish Marriages.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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