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LOUIS ORLEANS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS ORLEANS  , DuKE OF (1703—1752), only son of Duke Philip II., the regent Orleans, was born at
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Versailles on the 4th of August 1703 . A pious, charitable and cultured prince, he took very little
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part in the politics of the time, although he was conspicuous for his hostility to Cardinal Dubois in 1723 . In 1730 Cardinal Fleury secured his dismissal from the position of colonel-general of the
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infantry, a
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post which he had held for nine years; and retiring into private
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life, he spent his time mainly in translating the Psalms and the epistles of St Paul . Having succeeded his
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father as duke of Orleans in 1723, he died in the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris on the 4th of
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February 1752 . His wife
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Augusta (d . 1726), daughter of Louis William, margrave of Baden,
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bore him an only son, Louis Philippe, who succeeded his father as duke of Orleans .

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