The July Monarchy, officially the Kingdom of France, was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting on 9 August 1830, with the revolutionary victory in the July Revol
Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution of 1830. The child with two pistols to the right of Liberty (who holds the tricolor flag) would be Victor Hugo's inspiration for Gavroche in Les Misérables.[citation needed]
Portrait of Louis Philippe I by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1841. The Louis Philippe I, King of the French, is depicted at the entrance of the Gallerie des batailles which he had furnished in the Château de Versailles.
Silver five-franc coin featuring Louis Philippe
Donjon of the Château de Vincennes, where Charles X's ministers were detained
Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch
July Monarchy
…French: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (French: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting on 9 August 1830, with the revolutionary victory in the July Revolution of 1830, and ending on 24 February 1848, with the Revolution of 1848…
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.