Orleanist
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The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But it is impossible not to admire the energy and courage of the irrepressible, inexhaustible, fragile-looking, shabby old Orleanist.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
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 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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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