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

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.

Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who became King, marked a profound change by assuming the title of a " King of the French " ( instead of the traditional " King of France and Navarre ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Though opposed to the government of King Louis-Philippe I, he took no part in politics, but devoted himself to his pastoral work.

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

When the prudish government of Louis-Philippe refused to purchase it, Count Anatole Demidoff bought it and took it to his palazzo in Florence.

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 ).

* 1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.

A wave of revolutions passed over Europe after the deposition of his father-in-law, King Louis-Philippe, from the French throne in 1848.

Fearing he would lose his throne, though, Louis-Philippe did not intervene in Menotti's planned uprising.

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

However, the newly-empowered Chamber of Deputies declared the throne vacant, and on 9 August, elevated < span lang =" fr "> Louis-Philippe </ span >, to the throne.

< span lang =" fr "> Louis-Philippe </ span > ascended the throne on the strength of the July Revolution of 1830, and ruled, not as " King of France " but as " King of the French ", marking the shift to national sovereignty.

Louis-Philippe of France, abdicated the throne, prompting similar revolts throughout the continent.

The French government bought the painting in 1831 for 3, 000 francs with the intention of displaying it in the throne room of the Palais du Luxembourg as a reminder to the " citizen-king " Louis-Philippe of the July Revolution, through which he had come to power.

His son would eventually ascend the throne in 1830 following the July Revolution as Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.

His successor, Louis-Philippe I, the next and last king to rule France, had lost both his brothers, Louis Charles and Antoine Philippe, many years before when he overtook the throne.

With Laffitte, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville, Adolphe Thiers, and others, he played a prominent part in calling Louis-Philippe to the French throne.

Balzac once wrote: " The worst fault of the July Revolution is that it did not allow Louis-Philippe of France | Louis-Philippe three months of dictatorship in which to put the rights of the people and the throne on a secure basis.

Although there was some effort during the days after the abdication of his grandfather in 1848 to put him on the throne under the name of Louis-Philippe II, with his mother ( Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ) as Regent, this came to nothing.

The House of Orléans is descended from the children of Liselotte and Philipp, which came to the French throne in 1830 in the person of Louis-Philippe of France.

Also from Louis XIII de Bourbon descends the cadet branch known as the House of Orléans, to which the Citizen-king Louis-Philippe, the Orleanist claimants to the throne of France ( Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France ) belong, as does the House of Orleans-Braganza.

Charles was forced to flee and Louis-Philippe d ' Orléans, a member of the Orléans branch of the family, and son of Philippe Égalité who had voted the death of his cousin Louis XVI, ascended the throne.