Duke of Orléans was the French royal title granted by the King of France and bestowed upon their close relatives, typically being a younger brother, son or otherwise inherited through the male line. F
Louis Orleans Gaignieres
French Portrait of King Louis XII of France at Prayer Walters 4634
Charles II, duc d'Orléans
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution.
Duke of Orléans
…Philippe, who would go on to bestow it upon his male descendants, creating the Cadet branch, "Orléans" of the parent Bourbons. Based at the Palais-Royal, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans contested the legitimacy of his cousin Louis XVI in the adjacent Louvre. His son would eventually ascend to the throne in 1830 as Louis Philippe I…
Portrait by Antoine-François Callet
Portrait of a young Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, by Louis Tocqué.
Louise Marie Adélaïde as the Duchess of Chartres
Louis Philippe d'Orléans, as Duke of Chartres, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1779, Château de Chantilly