Equally little does this view explain why for several centuries the collective will is not withdrawn from certain rulers and their heirs, and then suddenly during a period of fifty years is transferred to the Convention, to the Directory, to Napoleon, to Alexander, to Louis XVIII, to Napoleon again, to Charles X, to
Louis Philippe, to a Republican government, and to Napoleon III.
{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}
It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as
Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.
There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether
Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil.
We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling -- thanks to trebled fees -- with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window, so well known as having been the favorite closet of Napoleon and Louis XVIII., and now of
Louis Philippe.
Villemain, Minister of Public Instruction to King
Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his instructions he found a MS.
Then, chart in hand, we reviewed the travels of the French navigator, his voyages of circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole, which led to the discovery of Adelaide and
Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical bearings of the principal islands of Oceania.
They wander through the gray streets of the Latin Quarter, finding refuge now in one attic, now in another, in their quaint costumes of
Louis Philippe, with their tears and their smiles, happy-go-lucky and reckless.
Crux; the leaders of the revolution which expelled
Louis Philippe from the throne of France marched side by side, in the dinner-table review, with old Mazey and the dogs.
1831: The French Foreign Legion was founded by King
Louis Philippe, with headquarters at Sidi-bel-Abbes in Algeria.
| 1848: France became a republic for the second time, following the abdication of King
Louis Philippe.