In a vote largely boycotted by conservative deputies, the body declared the French throne vacant, and elevated Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, to power.

In February 1831, the Congress nominated Louis, Duke of Nemours, the son of the French king Louis-Philippe, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honour for his son.

The last of the appanages, the Orléanais, was reincorporated to the French crown when the Duke of Orléans, Louis-Philippe, became king of the French in 1830.

Henri, Count of Paris and Duke of France, is an agnatic fifth-generation descendant of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.

The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, Second French Revolution or in French, saw the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who himself, after 18 precarious years on the throne, would in turn be overthrown.

It was later used as a title by Henri d ' Orléans, the youngest son of Louis-Philippe, King of the French and Duke of Orléans.

The Belgian Congress chose Louis, Duke of Nemours, the second son of the French king Louis-Philippe, to be king of Belgium.

He was bestowed with the personal title of Duke of Guise by Louis-Philippe, King of the French, his grandfather, in 1847.

Joinville Island was discovered and charted roughly during 1838 by a French expedition commanded by Captain Jules Dumont d ' Urville, who named it for Prince François, Prince of Joinville ( 1818 – 1900 ), the third son of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

She was daughter of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain and Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier ( 1824 – 1890 ), the youngest son of Louis-Philippe of France and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.

Louis-Philippe held posts as conseiller d ' état, Chamberlain and Grand Veneur under Duke Léopold I, and his daughters were among the court beauties.

** Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France ( b. 1817 )

* March 6 – Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France and mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria ( d. 1907 )

As a compromise the crown was offered to Louis-Philippe, duke of Orléans, a descendant of the brother of Louis XIV, and the head of the Orleanist cadet branch of the Bourbons.

There, although the time he spent in administrative duties slowed the flow of paintings from his brush, he executed Antiochus and Stratonice ( executed for Louis-Philippe, duc d ' Orléans ), Portrait of Luigi Cherubini, and the Odalisque with Slave, among other works.

King Louis disliked the First Prince of the Blood, Louis-Philippe d ' Orléans, and took every opportunity to snub him.

The chapel was completed as the Orléans family royal Chapel during the reign of his great-great-grandson Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.

In 1830, after the July Revolution, his refusal to swear allegiance to the new House of Orléans king Louis-Philippe put an end to his political career.

The second, in 1890, was a love match with Princess Hélène of Orléans, a daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and great-granddaughter of King Louis-Philippe I, the last Bourbon King of France.

The title subsequently remained in the Orléans family, and was borne in particular by Antoine Philippe ( 1775 – 1807 ), son of Philippe Egalité, and by Antoine Marie Philippe Louis ( 1824 – 1890 ), son of King Louis-Philippe and father-in-law of King Alphonso XII of Spain.

* Louis-Philippe d ' Orléans ( 6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850 ),

Image: Louis-Philippe de Bourbon. jpg | Louis Philippe d ' Orléans, King of the French

** Through her son, Françoise Marie became a direct ancestor of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and the modern House of Orléans.

A descendant of King Louis-Philippe ( ruled 1830 – 1848 ), he is the current head of the Orléans line of the Bourbon dynasty.

The liberal Orleanists agreed to recognize Chambord as king, and the Orleanist claimant himself, Louis-Philippe Albert d ' Orléans ( 1838 – 1894 ), count of Paris, recognized Chambord as head of the French royal house.

Prince Louis of Orléans ( Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d ' Orléans ; 25 October 1814 – 26 June 1896 ) was the second son of the future King Louis-Philippe I of France, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.

Louis-Philippe, a member of the traditionally more liberal Orléans branch of the House of Bourbon, proclaimed himself roi des Français (" King of the French ") rather than roi de France (" King of France "), emphasizing the popular origins of his reign.

With backing from his direct superior, Henri d ' Orléans, duc d ' Aumale ( incidentally, one of the sons of former king Louis-Philippe ), Boulanger was made a brigadier-general in 1880, and in 1882 War Minister Jean-Baptiste Billot appointed him director of infantry at the war office, enabling him to make a name as a military reformer ( he took measures to improve morale and efficiency ).

In 1830, Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, son of the duchesse d ' Orléans, embellished the chapel which was renamed Chapelle royale de Dreux, now the necropolis of the Orléans royal family.

For prime minister, he selected Odilon Barrot, an unobjectionable middle-road parliamentarian, who had led the " loyal opposition " under Louis-Philippe.

Louis-Philippe, who took the throne in the July Revolution of 1830, saved the castle from total ruin by transforming it into a National Museum dedicated to " all the glories of France " in 1837.

When Louis-Philippe demanded his extradition, the Swiss refused to hand over a man who was a citizen and a member of their armed forces.

The town's namesake is unknown, although some have suggested that its name was influenced by the French King Louis-Philippe, who visited the area in the late 1790s.

Throughout his career as a painter, he was protected by Talleyrand, who served successively the Restoration and king Louis-Philippe, and ultimately as ambassador of France in Great Britain, and later by Talleyrand's grandson, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III and speaker of the French House of Commons.

In the following year he pleaded for the liberation of the duchess, made a memorable speech in defence of François-René de Chateaubriand, who was prosecuted for his violent attacks on the government of Louis-Philippe of France, and undertook the defence of several Legitimist journalists.

Charlotte had three brothers: Louis-Philippe, who died in infancy, Leopold, who on the death of their father became Leopold II of Belgium and Philippe, Count of Flanders.

As such he is recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists who adhere to the succession of Louis-Philippe (" Orléanists "), as well as by the " Unionist " faction that rejects Louis-Philippe's title but recognizes his grandson Philippe, Count of Paris ( 1838 – 1894 ) as the heir of the rival claimant Henry, Count of Chambord, the last direct agnatic descendant of King Louis XV.

He has three further descents from Louis-Philippe through his father and one through his mother, who also descends from Louis-Philippe in the male line, for a total of five descents as a great-great-great-grandson.

As early as 1825 his name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the throne of Greece, and in February 1831 he was nominated king of the Belgians, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honour for his son, who was accompanying the French army that entered Belgium to support the new kingdom in its separation from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ; there he took part in the siege of Antwerp.

Louis-Philippe, who had flirted with liberalism in his youth, rejected much of the pomp and circumstance of the Bourbons and surrounded himself with merchants and bankers.

The Legitimists, another of the main right-wing families identified in René Rémond's classic opus Les Droites en France, were disparagingly classified with the Ultras after the 1830 July Revolution by the victors, the Orleanists, who deposed the Bourbon dynasty for the more liberal king Louis-Philippe.

However, from 1871 forward, they competed with Monarchist groups that favoured the restoration of the family of Louis-Philippe, King of the French ( 1830 – 1848 ) ( the Orléanists ), and with those who favoured the restoration of the House of Bourbon, the traditional French royal family ( Legitimists ).

During the French Revolution, it became for a short time host to Louis-Philippe, who sought refuge from the revolutionaries.

He was replaced by Louis-Philippe, who named himself " King of the French ", rather than the standard " King of France " – an indication that he answered more to the nascent bourgeoisie than the aristocratic Ancien Régime.

His family owned it until 1912 when it was bought by cabinet minister Louis-Philippe Brodeur who owned it until 1931.

He was replaced by Louis-Philippe, who named himself " King of the French " ( rather than the usual " King of France ") in an attempt to distance himself from the Ancien Régime.

He was appointed court painter of Louis-Philippe, the king of the French, who commissioned him to paint individual portraits of his large family.

Such sovereigns included Tsar Nicholas of Russia and King Louis-Philippe of France, who was so pleased with his model that he gave Norris a gold medal and a handsome gold box.

Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière ( 19 November 1812, Brest, Finistère – 5 March 1892 ) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe.