Orleanist
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The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he is at Chantilly on a race-day he gracefully does the honors of his reserved stand to all the little Orleanist court.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
The man who knew those times best, Roederer afterwards assured Napoleon that, if there was an Orleanist conspiracy, Orleans himself was not in it.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
The former is now both the Orleanist and Legitimist pretender, to the French throne.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
The struggle between the Burgundian and Orleanist, or Armagnac parties, and the ecclesiastical squabbles of the Great Schism, produced some figures of greater interest.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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