Louis Philippe
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Standing in the drizzle on the Louis Philippe bridge near Paris’s city hall, Wendy said: “It’s really something. We didn’t expect flooding on the Seine.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2016
This sketch," said the draughtsman, "resembles Louis Philippe.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
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