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Louis Philippe

American  

noun

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


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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Mr. Fureix said that the government had been “trapped” by the casserolades, just like Louis Philippe I in his time.

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

Alexandre Dumas, though in the employ of Louis Philippe in 1830, soon flung aside court livery and conservatism.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

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