During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine, at the Château de Sceaux, was amusing itself with frivolities, and when that of the Duc d’Orléans, at the Palais-Royal, was devoting itself to debauchery, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert passed for the temple of propriety and good taste, in a reaction against the cynicism and vulgarity of the time.
Charles, Duke of Orléans, Duke of Orléans (1394 – 1465) son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans and Valentina Visconti
On the death of the last duke in 1830, the title passed to Louis Philippe III, Duke of Orléans, a great-great-grandson of the Louis I, Duke of Enghien through the female line.
There he was employed by the Duc d'Orléons and for a short time he enjoyed the pension of a musician on the establishment of Mlle. d'Orléans; on the outbreak of the revolution he left France for London in 1790 and did not reappear until his 1792 London debut at Salomon's Concerts among others.
Through Madame de Montespan, he is an ancestor of Philippe Égalité, Louis-Philippe I, and Prince Henri, Count of Paris, the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne.
From 1652 he was harpsichordist at the court of the Duke of Anjou (Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, a brother of Louis XIV), and in 1660 he obtained that post to the young queen Marie-Thérése.
The hôtel saw several lavish and unusual festivals, such as the "danse macabre" on 23 August 1451 before Charles, Duke of Orléans.
# Louis Philippe II d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier
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# Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier (Philippe Égalité) (1747-1793) - son of Louis Philippe I
Officials later changed the name to Île d'Orléans in honour of the second son of King Francis I, Henri II, the Duke of Orléans.
Buried at the chapel at the Château de Rambouillet, he was later moved by his posthumous sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon (wife of the future Philippe Égalité) to the Chapelle royale de Dreux.
Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752), son of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
Among her clients were Madame de Grancey, an acquaintance of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and the marquis de Feuquieres, previously the client of La Voisin, who reportedly hired her to summon a demon by the name of Prince Babel.
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Already in 1696, six years before, a professional female fortune teller had been arrested of black magic, although the case was never brought to trial since it was discovered that the Duke of Chartres and the marquis de Feuquieres was among her clients.
The title of Duke of Orléans reverted to the crown and was later given to his younger brother Gaston who outlived him for another four decades.
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His youngest brother, Gaston de France, titled at birth as Duke of Anjou as was customary for the third son, was born in 1608.
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), son of Philippe I and Regent of France, 1715-23
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Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747-1793), great grandson of Philippe II and father of Louis Philippe of France
The current French royal family are descended in the male line from Philippe I, Duke of Orléans the younger son of Louis XIII of France.
Philippe (Égalité), Duke of Orléans
He studied in Paris under the guidance of Vespasien Robin, botanist to the king of France, who introduced him to Gaston, Duke of Orléans.
The preparation of the expedition at the end of August was marred by a bitter rivalry between the two king's eldest son, the Prince Ferdinand Philippe and the Prince Louis, who both vied for the honor to participate: the first considered that, as the senior, it was his right, while the second, who participated in the unsuccessful expedition of the previous year, was keen to avenge this humiliation.
Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that "Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor" and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor "was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d'Orléans".
The Duke of Orleans is a rich and powerful aristocrat, arrogant and ruthless, "a spleenful detracting Lord."
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The lands formed part of the appanages granted to various younger sons of Kings of France with the title Duke of Orléans.
He was the lover of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon after the death of her husband the duke of Orleans.
After his big race success, Singleton spent time in France, as trainer to the Duke of Orleans, but this employment came to an end with the coming of the French Revolution.
In Paris, she was provided access to the Palais-Royal to copy works of the artists on display that were owned by the Duke of Orléans.
In 1901 he was entrusted with the last message from Queen Victoria to the Duke of Orleans.