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DUKE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE ORLEANS (1725–...

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKE OF See also:LOUIS PHILIPPE See also:ORLEANS (1725–1785)  , son of See also:Louis, See also:duke of See also:Orleans, was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the 12th of May 1725, and was known as the duke of See also:Chartres until his See also:father's See also:death in 1752 . Serving with the See also:French armies he distinguished himself in the See also:campaigns of 1742, 1743 and 1744, and at the See also:battle of See also:Fontenoy in 1745, retiring to Bagnolet in 1757, and occupying his See also:time with theatrical performances and the society of men of letters . He died at St See also:Assise on the 18th of See also:November 1785 . The duke married See also:Louise Henriette de See also:Bourbon-See also:Conti, who See also:bore him a son See also:Philip (Egalite), duke of Orleans, and a daughter, who married the last duke of Bourbon . His second wife, Madame de See also:Montesson, whom he married secretly in 1773, was a See also:clever woman and an authoress of some repute . He had two natural sons, known as the See also:abbot of St Far and the abbot of St Albin . See L'Automne d'un See also:prince, a collection of letters from the duke to his second wife, edited by J . Hermand (1910) .

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