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3 unusual facts about Philippe I, Duke of Orléans


Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

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.

Henri Dumont

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.

Prince d'Orléans

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.


Count of Orléans

The lands formed part of the appanages granted to various younger sons of Kings of France with the title Duke of Orléans.

Duke of Montmorency

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.

Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart

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.

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

The French government commissioned the symphony for the celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution which had brought Louis-Philippe to power, for which it was erecting the July Column in the Place de la Bastille.

Île d'Orléans

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.

Jacques-Marie Rouzet

He was the lover of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon after the death of her husband the duke of Orleans.

Jérôme Napoléon Charles Bonaparte

Of poor health since childhood, in 1845 Jérôme Napoléon sought permission to travel to Vernet-les-Bains to drink of its spring water, but the government of King Louis-Philippe I refused to let him enter French territory.

John Singleton the Younger

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.

Joseph Francis Olliffe

In 1846, Louis-Philippe appointed Olliffe a knight of the Legion of Honour, and he was promoted to the rank of Officer in 1855 by Napoleon III.

Margaret Bingham

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.

Mazarinettes

She even allowed the younger ones to be educated together with the king and his younger brother, Philippe, in the Palais-Royal.

Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans

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.

Philippe Charles, Duke of Anjou

Philippe-Charles de France, born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was the second son of the Louis XIV, and titled duc d'Anjou at birth, title previously held by his uncle, Philippe de France, duc d'Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV.

Sidney J. A. Churchill

In 1901 he was entrusted with the last message from Queen Victoria to the Duke of Orleans.

Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond

Then known as the Count and Countess de Neuilly, and formerly Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and his queen Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, the couple and their entourage stayed at the Star and Garter while Maria recovered from the effects of the water at Claremont House.

The Honest Man's Fortune

The Duke of Orleans is a rich and powerful aristocrat, arrogant and ruthless, "a spleenful detracting Lord."

Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia

Having succeeded in ending his mother's power in Savoy, Victor Amadeus looked to his oncoming marriage with the youngest child of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (brother of Louis XIV) and Henrietta of England.


see also

Mademoiselle de Chartres

Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676–1744) daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate

Mademoiselle de Valois

Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669–1728) daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and Princess Henrietta of England