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The Dukes of Orleans - royals who were born to lose
We introduce a family a single ancestor damned
- The Pretender to the French throne...
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•Dreux
 - Louis on right, Philip on left, by Mignard, Court painter, 1665
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...descends from Philip, the Sun King's brother, 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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- How the Monarchy was doomed
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 - Execution of Louis XVI (January 21, 1793)
During the Revolution the family leader and demagogue took the name "Equality Philip'" and cast a decisive vote for the execution of his cousin, Louis XVI...
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- Louis-Philippe, his son, sole family member to ascend the throne ...
he remains known mainly from his negative presence in "Les Miserables" and, although he is rarely credited with them, the major monuments that he left 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, Palais-Royal
That is all the more reason to tell some of their stories, in front of their graves or, much more cheerfully, in the restaurant that must be the only public site to present some of their portraits. (in Paris)
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Restaurant / Carolyn Ristau
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