François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848.
Portrait by Jehan Georges Vibert, after an 1837 original by Paul Delaroche
François Guizot accepts the charter from Louis-Philippe, the "Citizen-King".
Blue plaque, 21 Pelham Crescent, London SW7
Guizot's house whilst Ambassador in London, 21 Pelham Crescent, London SW7
Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of nineteen, but he broke with the Republic over its decision to execute King Louis XVI. He fled to Switzerland in 1793 after being connected with a plot to restore France's monarchy. His father Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, fell under suspicion and was executed during the Reign of Terror.
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1841
Profile of the 13-year-old Louis Philippe d’Orléans, drawn by Carle Vernet (27 August 1787)
Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, in 1792 by Léon Cogniet (1834)
Early in his exile, Louis Philippe was a teacher of geography, history, mathematics and modern languages, at a boys' boarding school in Reichenau, Switzerland.
