With the future enlargement of her family in mind, she bought the Château de Saint-Cloud, a place she had always loved, from the duc d ' Orléans, the father of the previously disgraced duc de Chartres.

* House of Orléans, French royal family

** Charlotte Orléans, a fictional character in a royal family possibly inspired by this

Francis was the only son of Charles, Count of Angoulême and Louise of Savoy and a great-great-grandson of King Charles V. His family was not expected to inherit the throne, as his third cousin King Charles VIII was still young, as was his father's cousin the Duke of Orléans.

His primary motivation was a desire to prevent the family of the late regent, the House of Orléans, from ascending the throne should the king die, seeing the House of Orléans as his own enemy.

At the age of seven, Gauguin and his family returned to France, moving to Orléans to live with his grandfather.

" Hoc vernant lilia corde " ( granted by Louis XII, then duke of Orléans ), meaning " It is by this heart that lilies flourish " or " This heart makes lilies flourish ", referring to the fleur de lys, symbol of the French royal family.

Louis Philippe d ' Orléans was born on the Palais-Royal, the Orléans family residence in Paris, to Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Chartres, who became Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ( also known as " Philippe Égalité " during the French Revolution ), and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon.

The reaction in Paris to Louis Philippe's involvement in Dumouriez's treason inevitably resulted in misfortunes for the Orléans family.

Philippe d ' Orléans ( Philippe Charles ; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723 ) was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723.

The Duke of Chartres grew up at his father's " private " court held at Saint-Cloud, and in Paris at the Palais-Royal, the Parisian residence of the Orléans family until the arrestation of Philippe Égalité in April 1793 during the French Revolution.

The heart of the Duke of Orléans is now at the Chapelle Royale de Dreux, the necropolis of all the members of the Orléans family, built in 1816 by his descendant Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, wife of Philippe Égalité.

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.

* By Marie-Louise Madeleine Victorine Le Bel de La Bussière, dite comtesse d ' Argenton or madame d ' Argenton or mademoiselle de Séry ( 1684 – 1748 ), a lady of noble family, who was Lady-in-Waiting to the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, daughter of Daniel Le Bel de La Bussière and wife Anne de Masparant:

After the time of Louis XIV the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary in the family of Orléans.

* Orléanists, who, in late 18th-and 19th century France, supported the Orléans branch of the French royal family, which came to power in the French monarch July Revolution

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He refused to vote the “ expulsion of the Princes ” in 1883, and resigned as Deputy upon the enactment of the law, because of his personal connections with the family of Orléans.

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.

In November 1785, upon his father's death, Philippe, the new Duke of Orléans, became the head of the House of Orléans, one of the wealthiest families of France, and Premier Prince du Sang, addressed as Monsieur, the most important personage of the kingdom after the king's immediate family, and, as such, next in line to the throne should the main Bourbon line die out.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

* then to Louis II, Duke of Orléans, of the Orléans branch of the Valois, who became Louis XII of France,

The leading candidates for the office — all of whom were black — were Dumarsais Estimé, a former school teacher, assembly member, and cabinet minister under Vincent ; Félix d ' Orléans Juste Constant, leader of the Haitian Communist Party ( Parti Communiste d ' Haïti — PCH ); and former Garde commander Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte, who stood as the candidate of a progressive coalition that included the Worker Peasant Movement ( Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan — MOP ).

The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.

Stephen also raised Bishop Theodulf of Orléans to the rank of Archbishop, and had Louis release from their exile all political prisoners originally from Rome who had been held by the emperor resulting from the conflict that plagued the early part of Pope Leo III ’ s reign.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons, respectively.

In 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to extend their dominion along the banks of the Loire River.

William studied liberal arts and theology in Paris and Orléans for about ten years, with professors who had been students of Thierry of Chartres and Gilbert de la Porrée.

He was unexpectedly challenged by his formerly disgraced cousin, the duc de Chartres, who had inherited the title of duc d ' Orléans at the death of his father in 1785.

She knew that her rival, the duc d ' Orléans, who had given money and bread to the people during the winter, would be popularly acclaimed by the crowd much to her detriment.

When Italian duchess Catherine de ' Medici married the Duke of Orléans ( Henry II of France ) in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.

His accession was marked by no disturbances, save the uprisings of the burgesses of Orléans and of Poitiers, who wished to organize communes.

However, Charles VIII died childless in 1498 and left the throne to the Duke of Orléans, who became Louis XII.

He sought the protection of Pierre-Armand du Camboust de Coislin, Bishop of Orléans, who harboured Quesnel for four years, at which point Quesnel joined Antoine Arnauld in Brussels.

Unlike Louis XIV, who had stood solidly behind Unigenitus, Orléans expressed ambivalence.

The dukes of Orléans were at the head of a political faction known as the Armagnacs who rejected the Treaty of Troyes and supported the claims of France's uncrowned king Charles VII.

As a result, the duke of Orléans was one of the very few combatants from Agincourt who remained a prisoner of the English fourteen years after the battle.

The Journal du siege d ' Orléans, as quoted in Pernoud, reports several heated discussions over the next week concerning military tactics between Joan and Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orléans, who directed the city's defense.

Henri's theoretical reign was ended on 9 August when the Chamber of Deputies declared Louis Philippe d ' Orléans, who was currently ruling France as regent, King of the French, thus ushering in the July Monarchy.

The Allies had initially split on the best candidate for the throne: Britain favoured the Bourbons, the Austrians considered a regency for Napoleon's son, François Bonaparte, and the Russians were open to either the duc d ' Orléans, Louis Philippe, or Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Napoleon's former Marshal, who was in line for the Swedish throne.