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
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 writer is an Orleanist, and thinks the Revolution of 1848 a mere whim of the populace, favored by a "vertigo" on the part of Louis Philippe.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
We will say, by way of illustration, it would be to the advantage of an Orleanist to get rid of all possible Bourbon claimants to the throne of France, would it not?
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary
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