Louis Philippe
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Louis Philippe was King of the French, by the grace of Lafayette and the acquiescence of a majority of the French people.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
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