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.
# 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
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 Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747-1793), great grandson of Philippe II and father of Louis Philippe of France
Philippe (Égalité), Duke of Orléans
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In 1775 the duc de Chartres bought it for his elaborate garden plan at Parc Monceau.
The lands formed part of the appanages granted to various younger sons of Kings of France with the title Duke of Orléans.
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.
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.
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.
During the Orléans’ time in France prior to Louis-Philippe's coronation, the family lived in the Palais-Royal which had been the home of Louis Philippe's father, the previous Duke of Orléans.
He was the personal enemy of Louis Philippe, who nevertheless enabled him to escape the guillotine on the request of Grace Elliott.
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.
In 1901 he was entrusted with the last message from Queen Victoria to the Duke of Orleans.
The Duke of Orleans is a rich and powerful aristocrat, arrogant and ruthless, "a spleenful detracting Lord."