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The Dukes of Orleans – royals who were born to lose
In front of their mausoleum, we introduce a family a single ancestor damned
- Philip, the Sun King's brother...
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 - Louis is on the right, Philip on the left, in this painting of the royal family (1665).
...whom History made the natural (though involuntary) leader of nobles' revolt.
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His descendants were usually intelligent and competent, which encouraged the senior branch to keep them at arms' length...
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- "Equality Philip", through whom the Monarchy was doomed
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 - Execution of Louis XVI (January 21, 1793)
During the Revolution the "radical chic" family leader turned his Palais-Royal gardens into the place from which the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity radiated out. Later, trembling with fear for his own life, he voted for the execution of his cousin, Louis XVI... . |
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- Louis-Philippe, his son ...
via a passage from "Les Miserables" and, monuments he left to Paris.
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- Some of his descendants were important to France, but information about them is hard to uncover
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 - Portraits of the family of Louis-Philippe, that one could see in a Palais-Royal restaurant until 2009
That is all the more reason to tell some of their stories. We show photos of these engravings of his children, who are ancestors to most of modern Europe's royals. The restaurant that harbored them is now closed... "And so passes the glory of the world". |
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- We illustrate the walk with this pictures and others
Credits: painting / "The royal family in 1665" by Mignard; restaurant / Carolyn Ristau ; other photos / Claude Abron
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