Orleanist
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The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if this young Orleanist were penniless and the Bourbon maid rich in prospect, he would save his kinsman the necessity of providing for him.
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary
On the one side Christian Egypt, and on the other the France of 1848, Madame Arnoux, Rosanette, and Frederick Moreau, the Orleanist carnival, and the "underwood" of Fontainebleau.
From Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life by Flaubert, Gustave
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 Saintsbury, George
The Orleanist party was shaken in its power; the rival Burgundian faction became more inclined to commit itself to the English cause, and the terror of the English arms weighed heavily upon both.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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