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Louis Philippe

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Lou·is Phi·lippe  (l f-lp, l- f-lp) Known as "the Citizen King." 1773-1850.
King of France (1830-1848). He ruled after the overthrow of the Bourbons in the July Revolution (1830) and abdicated during the Revolution of 1848.
Louis Philippe (French) [filip]
n
(Biographies / Louis Philippe (1773-1850) M, French, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) known as the Citizen King. 1773-1850, king of the French (1830-48). His régime became excessively identified with the bourgeoisie and he was forced to abdicate by the revolution of 1848


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{daughter of Louis XVI = the dauphine, Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d'Angouleme, mentioned above; Amelie = Marie Amelie(1782-1866), daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples, sister of King Francis I of The Two Sicilies--reluctantly became queen in France when her husband the Duke of Orleans seized the throne from Charles X on July 31, 1830, and was proclaimed King Louis Philippe of the French}
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