Orleanist
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The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Leon was ten years old, the Revolution of 1848 deposed Louis Philippe, the Orleanist, and Louis Napoleon was made President of the Republic.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.
An Orleanist, an enthusiastic lover of Parliamentary institutions, he would not stoop with Guizot and Thiers to serve a King whose power was founded on corruption.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
The Orleanist party recruited itself among all those whose promptitude to revive the Empire needed, perhaps, but one flash of hardihood, a leader, and a cry.
From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
At Count Arthur De La More's, of the Orleanist staff, I found the greatest hostility toward the Emperor.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
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